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First Generation Focus
Colleges need to focus on students whose parents never earned a degree, writes Teresa Heinz Housel.
Rationalize Sports Recruiting
College sports recruiting is a circus that favors the interests of sports over academics and of colleges over athletes. Gerald Gurney and Jerome Weber propose some reforms to restore the balance.
Making Peace with the NCAA
Allen Sack, a longtime critic of the college sports overseer, says the adoption of multiyear scholarships for athletes is a game-changing reform for players.
Algorithm of a Salesman
A straightforward problem in mathematics remains unsolved, even with a $1 million prize for whoever solves it. Scott McLemee thinks attention must be paid.
The Prison-House of Data
The field of digital humanities is limited and marginalized by the perception that it's simply about data, Noah Wardrip-Fruin writes.
Hurting His Own Case
Rick Santorum's critiques aren't helpful to the conservative academics he says need support, writes one of them, Matthew Woessner.
Virtuous Arguments
The Rush Limbaugh debate and other examples of political incivility point to the need for the kind of instruction offered in many first-year writing courses, writes John Duffy.
Don't Weaken Federal Oversight
House-passed legislation to gut Education Department rules governing the credit hour and state approval will undermine consumer protection and hurt taxpayers, Rep. Tim Bishop writes.