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Trauma, Teaching and Tamerlan
Wick Sloane, a one-time Boston Marathoner, reflects on a surprise on a 2007 class list.
Diversity Then and Now
Gretchel Hathaway considers the evolution of campus moves to be more inclusive, and the officials who lead such efforts.
'Appropriate' Technology
So much talk about using technology to increase student completion aims to change the nature of instruction. Let's instead focus on using technology to let the instructors teach more, writes Brian Parish.
Crunching Literature
Machines are "reading" novels that literary historians would otherwise never get to. Scott McLemee considers the results and prospects of "Macroanalysis."
Humanities, Not Harvard
Disciplines that are under siege would do well to reject the models for their fields that were created by elite universities and that scare off students and the public, write Chris Buczinsky and Robert Frodeman.
MOOCs, History and Context
Massive open online courses might only be a footnote in the evolution of higher education, but they reflect a revolution that is taking place regardless of whether they succeed, writes Arthur Levine.
Higher Education Can't Wait
Talk about fundamental changes is well and good, but colleges can and should adopt proven reforms (expanding access to bottleneck courses, lowering textbook costs) right now, write Gene Hickok and Tom Shaver.
MOOCs and the Quality Question
Because of their lineage, the highly publicized courses are widely assumed to set the standard for online education. But the first wave of them don’t come close, writes Ronald Legon.