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Rethinking the Faculty Role in Students’ Career Readiness
It’s time for all of us on campuses, not just the people in career services, to step up and help offer the competencies employers say they’re looking for, Rachel Toor writes.
The Urge
Scott McLemee reviews Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge: Our History of Addiction.
The Dilemmas of Disciplines Going Public
Various fields have had public dimensions for decades, writes Harvey J. Graff, but it’s now time for scholars from different specializations to embark on a renewed set of initiatives.
An Oft-Neglected Way to Help Restore Students’ Mental Health
COVID has significantly intensified their anxiety, depression and hopelessness, yet untapped cures may lie in campus makerspaces, Jenna Scott writes.
The Inevitable Problem of Self-Censorship
The surveys highlighting it among students provide no definitive evidence of repression and, in fact, may actually show strong levels of free speech and diversity on campuses, argues John K. Wilson.
Inside Higher Ed Acquired by Times Higher Education
Our editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman explain how this combination of publishing companies will improve global coverage of postsecondary education and better serve the higher ed community.
Ethical College Admissions: 3 Issues
Jim Jump has some worries about ethics as he surveys the admissions landscape.
All In? Or Just Some?
Carol Geary Schneider writes of civic learning, the equity shortfall and colleges’ role in nurturing the habits of mind and heart and practical problem solving our troubled democracy so urgently needs.