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The Reluctant Pragmatist
Is making a practical case for the liberal arts necessary, or a trap? Attendees at St. John's College conference differ in their opinions.
Faculty Work, Student Success
How the College of New Jersey reimagined what professors can do.
What Students Write
National study examines the nature of assignments -- and finds many of them lacking in creativity.
Humanities vs. STEM, Redux
New analysis shows that students earn more credits in the humanities than in STEM -- but that humanities majors and STEM majors rarely find themselves in the same classroom.
What's Expendable?
As many women's colleges move to admit men, Mary Baldwin tries to preserve a single-sex institution by building up professional and graduate programs. Some faculty fear the college is safeguarding one tradition by sacrificing another.
The Evolving Curriculum
"The Evolving Curriculum -- Measuring Effectiveness of Change" is a compilation of articles and essays on efforts to reshape what...
Trigger Unhappy
Facing widespread faculty opposition, Oberlin drops policy requiring warnings about material that may be upsetting to students. Do students need such cautions?
The STEM Enrollment Boom
Since the recession, undergraduate enrollments have gone up dramatically, but primarily in engineering and biology and not at expense of humanities and social sciences, study finds.