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The Problem With Pronouns

Asking everyone their preferred personal pronoun is not a good idea, argues Rachel N. Levin.

What’s So Bad About Marketing?

The need to sell higher education and the liberal arts is real, and there should be no shame in that, argue Leonard Cassuto and Robin L. Cautin.

A Modest Proposal on Rankings

Mark Salisbury issues an open letter to college presidents.

Ethical College Admissions: The Cult of Selectivity

Jim Jump hopes that Stanford's recent announcement that it won't boast about admissions statistics leads to reflection at other colleges about the quest for more and more applicants.

Rankings Must Reconsider Alumni Giving Rates

The metric used in the U.S. News rankings is deeply flawed and can encourage a profoundly limited view of the positive impact of alumni relations, argues Sue Cunningham.

Distant Early Warning

Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee.

Democratizing the American University

When it comes to cases like that of Avita Ronell, American universities can learn a lot from British ones, argues Rebecca Gould.

The Ronell Case and the Catholic Church

Defenders of Avital Ronell should look to the uncovering of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, argues Kathryn Meredith Doyle.