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Over It Yet? Privacy, That Is
Recent incidents demonstrate that students have no idea about the implications of their lives online, writes Michael Bugeja.
Our Obligation to Adapt
College instructors and leaders must change our ways if we're to connect with today's technology-enabled students, writes Robert Eisinger.
The 20-Something Dilemma
Today's young people are overly scripted and afraid of failure, traits reinforced by many parents and by the college admissions process, writes the 20-something Tim Henderson.
Furlough Realities
It's time to be honest about pay cuts and their consequences, writes Shaun Johnson.
The Real Cost Equation
To understand rising tuition rates, focus less on colleges and more on broad economic trends, write Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman.
Perils of Presidential Parallels
Robert Schmuhl writes about how he tries to engage the public with nonpartisan analysis based on scholarship -- and manages to offend all sides.
Re-sorting Responsibilities
The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.