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Adapting to Pressure
Authors acknowledge challenges for four-year colleges and worry about their future as drivers of opportunity. But they believe colleges are adaptable and will continue to offer students value.
Are Prospective Students About to Disappear?
New book says most colleges -- and the vast majority of nonelite institutions -- are about to face severe shortage of potential students.
Opinion
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Scott McLemee explores the Library of Congress’s recent announcement that it will no longer be a repository of every public posting to Twitter.
Opinion
Whose Struggle?
Bob Blaisdell never condemned a student for reading a book, regardless of its subject matter or author. Until one day.
‘Teaching the Literature Survey Course’
Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved -- and should evolve.
‘Bit by Bit’
Author discusses new book on social science research in era of big data.
OER Adoptions on the Rise
The number of faculty members choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks has nearly doubled in the last year, but awareness over all remains low.
Is Anyone Reading This Headline?
Authors of statistics textbook proudly declared, in a footnote, that no one reads footnotes. Photos of the footnote keep going viral.