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Aesthetics on the River
Charlie Tyson reflects on the lessons of beauty and thought learned from rowing and from study of the humanities.
The Moment We've Waited For?
The recent protests on campuses have made it clear that we in higher education have students' attention and engagement, writes Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. Now we have to decide what to do with it.
No Longer Bystanders
In these times of student protests as well as terrorism at home and abroad, American college and university leaders must commit to a far more robust infrastructure to support international students, argues William G. Durden.
Procrastination-Proofing Students
The more we understand procrastination and think it through with our students, write Steven J. Corbett and Michelle LaFrance, the more we can help them build lifelong habits that allow them to be successful.
Note From New Jersey
Michael Klein challenges Dean Dad's assertion that the state's higher ed system is failing its residents.
Fresh Start
In David Galef's latest dispatch from U of All People, a professor promises to turn over a new leaf in 2016. Skepticism is warranted.
His Brother's Keeper
In a new memoir, the brother of the Unabomber tries to make sense of his own past in the context of acts of violence utterly disconnected from his own memories, writes Scott McLemee.