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Clear Expectations on Readiness
Colleges and policymakers could help more students succeed by making non-academic college readiness part of Common Core standards, write Melinda Mechur Karp and Rachel Hare Bork.
Focus on Party Hosts
To prevent alcohol-related deaths of students, colleges need to get realistic about campus culture, and to be willing to help those organizing social events with booze do so in safer ways, writes Rick C. Jakeman.
Why the Great Cheat
Harvard students -- just like Lance Armstrong -- have already reached a summit, so why do they feel the need to break the rules? That's what happens when we make outcomes more important than the experience, Steve Gimbel argues.
Talkin' 'Bout My Generation
Berkeley and Mario Savio are typically held up as the higher ed symbols of the '60s. John Thelin argues that Mitt Romney and Harvard's M.B.A./J.D. program complete the portrait.
Why FERPA Is Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court's reasoning in its ruling on President Obama's health care law should undermine a student privacy law that colleges often abuse to hide information that should be public, writes Frank LoMonte.
Wild Kingdom
A paleontologist explores the outer reaches of the evolution of sex in a new book. Scott McLemee feels kind of dirty just thinking about it.
MOOCs' Missing Pieces
Before these massive online courses truly transform higher education, they need to focus on some key teaching issues, writes Gary S. May.
MOOCs' Contradictions
Universities are going to have difficulty if they continue to claim the content of the new courses is of the same caliber as traditional courses, and yet decline to award full credit, writes David Touve.