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German Apprenticeships: Made for America

The German apprenticeship model offers many valuable lessons but must be adapted to be successful in the U.S., writes Thomas Lichtenberger.

Ethical College Admissions: Harvard's Shift on the SAT

Jim Jump considers the implications of the university's decision to stop requiring the essay portion of the test.

Could Enrollment Fears Be Used for Good?

Maybe now is the time to reform admissions for the better, writes Nicholas Soodik.

Creating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculties

We must change hiring practices to produce racially and ethnically diverse faculties, argues Estela Mara Bensimon.

Planned Obsolescence

Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes.

Social Media, Privacy and Technological Change

Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.

Fake News Forever!

When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events?

Machine Learning, Big Data and the Future of Higher Ed

These new technologies have much to offer colleges and their students, but if we are not careful how we incorporate them, the risks may outweigh the gains, Vincent Del Casino Jr. writes.