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The Wrong Path to Higher Ed Equality
President Obama’s plans for free community college and higher ed ratings will reinforce, not combat, inequity for disadvantaged students, writes Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
Politically Correct?
Charles Green takes issue with the way mainstream publications characterize higher education.
'Lighting Up'
Smoking is cool, sophisticated, sexy and enjoyable. Plus, it can kill you. Scott McLemee looks at a study of how students try to split the difference.
A Persistently Ignored Problem
Public attention for student-on-student harassment and assault is overdue, but colleges also need to prevent the mistreatment of students by faculty members, writes Billie Wright Dziech.
Cautions on E-books
Daniel Goldstein warns that some of the contracts colleges are accepting may limit access in key ways.
Roles and Responsibilities
Michael Roth explains how he has worked with faculty in two presidencies -- sometimes maneuvering around traditional governance structures and at other times embracing them.
The Big Ten
After hundreds of columns in the course of the past decade, Intellectual Affairs takes stock. Scott McLemee wonders whatever became of Ivan Tribble.