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STEM, not STEAM
Concern about the arts could dilute an important national effort focused appropriately on science and technology, writes Gary S. May.
Professors Should Define Student Success
Faculty members should lead the process of redefining how colleges determine if students are ready for careers and life -- with the help of the Degree Qualifications Profile, Norm Jones and Harrison Kleiner argue.
Techno Fantasies
Audrey Watters and Sara Goldrick-Rab challenge Kevin Carey's The End of College.
Shatterer of Worlds
It's compact, direct and mind melting -- and now its story has been told. Scott McLemee meditates on The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography.
The Two Cultures, 2.0
The real divide in higher education today is between faculty members and the education technology industry, writes David G. Halsted.
American Ignorance
The public is shockingly unaware of the world, and educators and civic leaders need to confront this problem, writes Sanford J. Ungar.
The Wrong Test
A major effort to track student learning in the American education system may be doomed because it does not distinguish between knowledge of subject matter and of computers, writes Eszter Hargittai.
Campus Carry vs. Faculty Rights
The spread of laws allowing guns on campus is a direct attack on faculty members' rights, writes Firmin DeBrabander.