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Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives
Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.
Digital Feedback
As colleges turn to vendors for help on retention services, one company offers a way to give positive feedback to students.
Fighting Plagiarism in Spain
U. of Granada tries to show that there is a path to assuring the integrity of student work.
Opinion
Stop Focusing on Failure
Too many colleges are focusing their analysis of student data to find the students likeliest to fail. Instead, they should identify which interventions will help which groups of students succeed, Dave Jarrat writes.
Learning to Adapt
Experiments with adaptive learning spread, particularly at large for-profits, as technology takes a wide range of sometimes overlapping forms.
Opinion
Winning Combination for Whom?
Higher-income students benefit most from the extracurricular student engagements a recent Gallup-Purdue study identified, writes Lauren Schudde.
Opinion
Mind the Gap
Efforts to reform remedial education that fail to address achievement gaps will perpetuate those gaps. John Squires and Angela Boatman propose a better way.
New Book, New Allegations
A professor accused and cleared of intentional plagiarism has been accused again, this time for his new book. His defenders say the real issue is that the allegations are being made anonymously.