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Obama and Walker: Both Wrong
The president and the Wisconsin governor are both placing too much emphasis on a narrow vision for higher education that won't help students with their careers or true learning, write Matthew T. Hora, Ross J. Benbow and Amanda K. Oleson.
This Year’s Winners
Teaching awards are all the rage -- especially at institutions, like U of All People, that don't even pretend to do any research. The latest from David Galef.
Don’t Only Call Us in a Crisis
Too many college leaders look to their student affairs offices only when something goes wrong. They can help the institutions be more successful, too, writes Kevin Kruger.
Marketing Lessons From Sweet Briar
Robert M. Moore writes that it's never been more important for colleges to look at what the research says about strategies and enrollment trends.
'Call Me Dr. ______'
A young black female academic notices that students call her colleagues Doctor or Professor, but she is addressed by her first name. Kerry Ann Rockquemore reviews her options.
Free American History!
Walt Whitman thought Americans needed free, authoritative textbooks. Scott McLemee interviews two historians who've answered that call for undergrads.
New Model of Tenure
Multiyear contracts and better wages go only so far in helping adjuncts, writes Michael Bérubé. And the current tenure system won't be opened up to them, so he argues that it's time for a new kind of tenure.