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How Higher Education Empowers Student Voters
Interest in the 2020 election could give colleges and universities an opportunity to increase student voting and civic engagement to a level we've rarely seen before, argues Hahrie Han.
What You Should Know About Your College
What are its affirmative action practices, Alan Morrison asks.
Ethical College Admissions: De-Fense!, or Defense Mechanisms
Jim Jump looks at the steps some colleges are considering -- without NACAC rules.
Plagiarize This!
Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? Scott McLemee explores the issue.
Better Data on Competency-Based Education
More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long.
Universities' Crucial Role in Our Spacefaring Future
To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies, Tuija Pulkkinen and Anthony Waas write, and that will require us to break our interdisciplinary boundaries.
Moving Toward Engaged Pluralism on the College Campus
Despite the efforts of many people in higher education, student experiences reflect and reinforce broader patterns of inequality, write Elizabeth Bradley and Candice M. Lowe Swift, who describe a large-scale and ongoing approach to help meet that challenge.
A Friend at the Front of the Room
Faculty members need to get more involved in helping students with mental health challenges, write engineering professors and deans Steven W. McLaughlin, Alec D. Gallimore and Robert D. Braun.