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Expand Economic Opportunity by Supporting Community Colleges
They're often the most affordable option for higher education -- if not the only option -- yet public funding for them compared to other colleges is clearly imbalanced, write Austan Goolsbee, Glenn Hubbard and Penny Pritzker.
The Repetition Compulsion
Scott McLemee explores various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism.
Land Acknowledgments Accomplish Little
If you actually want to help people, then ask others to do something, writes Alex Small.
Same-Sex Abuse Should Not Be Invisible
But it is, even in the Me Too era, argues Robert Oscar Lopez.
The Candidates' Higher Ed Bidding Wars
Any proposal to spend federal dollars on higher education should concentrate on those who actually need the help, for otherwise it is money wasted, argues David Kirp.
The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure
The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies, write James W. Weis, Amy Brand and Joi Ito.
Ethical College Admissions: Applicants’ Remorse
There are many reasons for the affliction, writes Jim Jump.
College Admissions Testing: Even More of an Arms Race
The changes to the ACT will only exacerbate the problems, writes Ben Paris.