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Grow Your Own Plants

In an era in which real dialogue is largely displaced by enclaves of the like-minded, colleges should focus on giving students effective ways to listen, think, converse and cooperate, Ryan Hays argues.

Good Teaching in Europe

The incentives for universities vary by country.
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Caricature of Campus Activism

Pundits overwhelming portray student activists as oversensitive whiners. Don't buy the hype, Michelle Minter argues: they are raising real issues on campuses.

For-Profit Group and Big Chains Part Ways

Big changes for APSCU, the for-profit trade group, which has lost most of its large-chain members and plans to focus again on career education.

Summer Unemployment Reality

Adjuncts at one California college recently won a contract provision that they believe will help them receive benefits during months they don't have teaching positions.
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Sense and Sensibility

Historians are recovering the sounds, smells and other sensory details of the past. Scott McLemee checks the record.

Faculty Salaries

"Faculty Salaries" is Inside Higher Ed's latest print-on-demand compilation of articles. It contains a report on the annual faculty compensation...

Race in a Ph.D. Program

Essay about a black doctoral student's experience leads to broader discussion of isolation and insensitivity felt by many -- even from seemingly progressive fellow students and faculty members.