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Award Season
Nicholas Soodik asks why so many colleges are vague or confusing in their letters to accepted applicants about financial aid eligibility.
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Educate or Execute?
Professors and teachers should not ever be expected to carry firearms to police their classrooms, writes Joshua Grubbs, a faculty member who is also a gun owner.
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A Dry Story
Almost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view.
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Skills Don’t Matter (Outside Their Context)
Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.
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Against Conformity
Michael S. Roth reflects on the questioning of liberal education in China and the United States.
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The Promise -- and Limits -- of Ed Tech
As we consider the use of technological tools in learning, let’s focus less on the what and more on the why and how, Jonathan Kaplan writes.
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The Russians (and Other Online Outlaws) Are Coming
The idea of deliberately manipulating a crisis at a flagship U.S. university via social media once sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory, writes Ellen de Graffenreid, but we now realize the extent to which it can actually happen.
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Identity Now
Mark Edmundson explores -- and applauds -- current students' quest for identity but says that achieving it is only half the game.
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