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This Long Conversation

Scott McLemee reviews Jenifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History.

Fight for Neuroscience at Montana State

Professors on campus say the university plans to turn a research-rich department into a more general biology-focused premed feeder school.

New Programs: eSports, Communication, Business, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Public Health, Software Development, Nutrition

Caldwell University is staring a bachelor's program in esports management. Landmark College is starting a bachelor's program in communication and...

‘The Scientific Attitude’

Author discusses new book on defending and explaining science.
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How to Make the GPA Less Flawed

For decades, American society has reduced student success, or failure, to this number completely absent of any context, Adam Piggott and Tom Solomon argue.

Colliding Values at Doane

University library exhibit included photos of students from the 1920s in blackface. Now the library director is suspended -- and some of her faculty colleagues say Doane made the wrong call.

Brown Reflects on 50 Years of ‘Open’ Curriculum

Educators from the university and elsewhere consider whether innovation is still possible in liberal arts education.
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Liberal Arts Under Pressure

Making cuts to liberal arts courses overlooks the significant benefits such an education provides to students, workers and the economy, writes Roger W. Ferguson Jr.