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The death of Scott Eric Kaufman -- an American critic and leading first-generation, graduate student blogger -- drives home the sense that this has been an especially cruel year, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

Traditional textbooks and teaching resources in these vital fields are simply not as effective as we need them to be, argues Smita Bakshi.

By Smita Bakshi

Colleges must put the right diversity practices in place to encourage students to pursue important fields like STEM and the biomedical sciences, write Jennifer C. Danek and Marc Nivet.

By Jennifer C. Danek and Marc Nivet

Among other things, assessors routinely ignore standard design principles and practices that are considered essential in most valid research.

By Erik Gilbert

Controversial decisions, late-night travel, explicit threats -- the president may have brushed them off, but as a governing board, we chose to look at them from a different perspective, writes Marsha Suggs Smith.

By Marsha Suggs Smith

Despite expanding legalization of recreational marijuana, regular cannabis use has the potential to adversely impact students’ personal happiness and productivity throughout college and for years to follow, says Jon Porter.

By Jon Porter

Scott McLemee delves into The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton, a study of how digital self-tracking is insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of human experience.

By Scott McLemee