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What's the Big Idea?
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The Decade Ahead
We asked scholars and illustrators to tell us what ideas would change our lives and academe in the next ten years.
- Daniel J. Solove: Dizzied by Data
- Michael Glenwood Gibbs: Extinction of the Middle Class
- Alondra Nelson: The Social Life of DNA
- Pat Shipman: Enough Already!
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Readers on "The Quality Question"
Everyone agrees that the quality of colleges and universities is slipping. But who is to blame and how do we move forward?
The problem is 'quality' means wildly different things at different institutions. ... We can bandy about terms like 'higher-order thinking' and 'critical analysis' all we want, but they mean different things for a student heading for a Ph.D. at Stanford vs. a student who wants an entry-level job as a help-desk tech."
Too many students in the last two generations have been unprepared for college. That doesn't mean that colleges do not share responsibility for American mediocrity, but the acceptance of mediocrity was taught well before the worst (or best) of our students came to university."
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
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College Love: John, Harvard, and Me
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In the News
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Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value
Faculty members will be evaluated based on their salaries, how much research money they bring in, and how much money they generate from teaching.
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First Report From U. of Phoenix Research Center Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education
The document sings the praises of proprietary institutions and attacks traditional colleges as "studies in inefficiency."
- Say Something: A Neuroscience Student Moonlights as an Opera Singer
- U. of Wisconsin Cannot Exclude Religious Group From Student Fees, Court Says
- Court Largely Upholds Florida Law That Put Sharp Limits on Academic Travel to Cuba
- For the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About Branding
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Budget Cuts Intensify Identity Crisis at Washington's Flagship Campus
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A Decade Later, Distress Over Huskies' Troubled Season Still Lingers
- U. of Southern Mississippi Plans to Cut Programs and 29 Faculty Jobs
- Public Colleges Turn to Tuition Increases to Offset Budget Squeezes
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Wired Campus
- Building 'Green' Presents Cellphone Challenges at U. of Colorado at Boulder
- Go to Class or Stay in Bed? A Web Site Decides for You
- The Virtual Sabbatical
New in the September 3 issue of The Chronicle: The Quality Question. Plus: The Chronicle Review's What Will Be the Defining Idea of the Next Decade?
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"People who loved Sarah Palin are disappointed," said one woman in Wasilla. "They found out that Sarah Palin loves Sarah Palin most of all." More
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