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The Public Option
Can scholarship in the humanities be done outside the ivory tower? Scott McLemee goes to Iowa to find out...
Is Tenure Conservative?
The ultimate in job security discourages the challenging, innovative scholarship it was designed to protect, writes Mark Kingwell.
So What Do They Want From Us, Anyway?
Kevin P. Reilly writes that state colleges and universities shouldn't be afraid of considering what the public wants from them -- and that this wish list essentially is about four issues.
The Limitations of Portfolios
Electronic collections help show the range of students' work, but are not standardized or scalable enough to be used for broad assessment purposes, write Richard Shavelson, Stephen Klein and Roger Benjamin.
State Universities' Tradition of Attrition
Among all the issues in higher education today, retention once again captures our attention. Most influential is the publication of...
New Civil Rights Movement
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated at the US Capitol on Sunday to demand LGBT equality. Scott McLemee thinks while marching...
How Community Colleges Can Reach Obama's Goals
Americans have long prided ourselves on our higher education system, but lately a much more negative image has emerged. The...
Picking Up Crumbs
Cuts in the cookie budget of the nation's wealthiest university don't illustrate hardship so much as show how lopsided support for higher education is, writes Drew A. Bennett.