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The Continued Coming of Second Language Students
To better serve the non-native students struggling with English who are (again) flooding classrooms, let's not assume they are “remedial,” Clifford Adelman warns.
A False Choice
Students and the colleges that teach them need not focus on only hard and soft skills, writes Gloria Cordes Larson.
Seizing a Sculpture
At Canada's Capilano University, the administration confiscates a professor's work caricaturing the president on the grounds that it constitutes "harassment."
Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic
How we communicate about disease can have consequences for prevention and treatment. Scott McLemee consults a new book on a recent epidemic.
Evaluating Evaluations
Research is playing a bigger role in faculty evaluations, while collegiality is declining in importance, study suggests. Student evaluations remain important in assessing faculty, but could be given less weight going forward.
For the Birds
As Princeton University Press transitions from print to digital products, will it soar in its foray into the app market?
The Substitutes Speak Out
Stepping into the breach for college commencement speakers sidelined by protests, retired university leaders defend importance of debate -- and one calls protesters "immature" and "arrogant."