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Feeling Unsafe

Student engagement survey finds black students are more than twice as likely as other students to feel "physically unsafe" on campus, and that black professors interact more with their students than do other professors.

Second Thoughts on Psychic Powers

Journal withdraws paper that argued -- based on flimsy evidence, critics said -- that some people are clairvoyant.

Flags and Dissent

As postelection protests continue, tactic people associate with the Vietnam era returns -- and so does debate about symbolism, patriotism and history.
Opinion

Brave New World

Scott McLemee delves into The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton, a study of how digital self-tracking is insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of human experience.

'The Faculty Factor'

Book argues that faculty’s diminishing influence puts higher education at risk. Suggested interventions include changing tenure to save it -- namely by ending it for professors at 70 years of age.
Opinion

When a B Isn’t Good Enough

The traditional definition of at-risk students is wrong, and we need to do more to help students caught in an institutional blind spot, write Angela Baldasare, Melissa Vito and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.

Free Speech in Contentious Times

Leaders of state universities hear differing views on how to uphold academic values at a time when many students feel under siege and misunderstood.

Friends With (Academic) Benefits

A new book argues that friendship isn’t necessarily a distraction in college but may be essential to academic success.