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Measured Innovation in Peer Review
Two online publishing ventures seek to reform peer review without blowing it wide open.
STEM Pathways
A series of new grants seek to help community college students in STEM fields successfully transfer to and graduate from four-year institutions -- a path that often is full of obstacles.
Opinion
Jacques Barzun: Anti-Educationist?
Was a legendary humanist and professor opposed to higher ed? Scott McLemee looks at the record.
Opinion
Holding Faculty Accountable
Post-tenure review, with real rigor and due process, can protect the truly important faculty rights, writes Elizabeth Hoffman.
Building a Better Faculty Senate
Faculty representatives at AAUP conference suggest improved communication and proactive approaches as ways to increase the standing of professors' governance bodies.
Rape and Betrayal
An account of a rape at Amherst, and of the way officials there didn't provide support, leads others to come forward -- and the college to try to fix what's broken.
Opinion
Income Data and the Degree
The gainful employment rule may be on hold, but there’s no reason the government can’t take advantage of the data it produces to give colleges information about their graduates’ success, writes Scott Kinney.
'No Longer Invisible'
A new book argues that colleges can find revitalization by paying more attention to religion on campus.