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Scott McLemee reviews Jonathan Gottschall’s The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down.

Evolving approaches are more necessary than ever, writes Vicki L. Baker, who offers four lessons that colleges should consider in developing these partnerships and programs.

Private donors could do a lot to help such institutions and the students whose lives they transform, writes Stan Spilecki.

By sharing the right data, higher ed leaders can use the collective expertise on their campus to identify and dislodge barriers to student success and advance equitable outcomes, writes Jeff Gold.

Jim Jump examines a recent study and the issues it raises.

David Banush explores how, with climate change and operational disruptions, answering that question going forward will require embracing an even more diffuse definition of the research library.

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.

Scott McLemee offers a preview of next spring’s university press offerings.