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Experimenting with Competency
The Education Department will loosen financial-aid rules for 40-plus colleges as they experiment with competency-based education and prior learning assessment.
Adjunct Insecurity
How a small group of temporary employees got the U. of Memphis to walk back a plan to kick them off Social Security.
Opinion
Socrates Untenured
Socrates couldn’t get a job today in a philosophy department. Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle think that’s a problem.
Opinion
Philosophy: Download It for Free
Philosophers should embrace new media as a tool to broaden their discipline's influence, Peter Adamson writes.
When to Take a Stand
MLA debates when and how it should enter political debates, and whether it should endorse boycott of Israeli universities -- with scholars on all sides invoking academic freedom.
Adjunct to Tenure-Track
Arbitrator says U. of Hawaii must hire longtime non-tenure-track faculty member for permanent post. Could contract provision on which ruling was based help others?
Measuring Substance
Three public college associations release draft discussion guide for how to measure student success after college.
Critical University Studies
Scholars at MLA discuss how their teaching -- and an emerging field of criticism -- reflects challenges facing academe.