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The National College Degree
The Education Department's new Online Skills Academy could be the first step to an alternative degree pathway, Paul LeBlanc writes, one that is nationally offered, low-cost and competency-based.
Adult Fiction?
English departments should embrace works written for young adult audiences, and recognize the long and significant history of the genre, writes Teresa Michals.
Technology Can Help Save the Liberal Arts
Rather than threaten the humanities and other non-vocational fields, innovations in delivering education can strengthen them and ensure that more people have access to them, writes Gunnar Counselman.
Humanities Strengthen Science
A visit to one of the country's most distinctive medical museums reminds Elizabeth H. Simmons how the humanities can bolster science and why science is best learned in social context.
Reading Disruption
The day of world domination by the ebook is at hand! Well, maybe. Scott McLemee checks out a more sober assessment.
The Age(ism) of Diversity
It's time for colleges to admit that they don't seriously consider older applicants for faculty jobs -- and then to start hiring talented academics older than 40, writes Robert J. McKee.
Becoming a Freshman, Again
Julie Wollman, a university president, shares what she learned about teaching and learning by taking a course -- in an unfamiliar subject -- with undergraduates.
No Apologies
It's time for students who leave MOOCs and the professors who teach them to stop apologizing, writes Jeffrey Pomerantz.