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Rethinking Credit Hours and Degrees
It’s (past) time we think beyond a measure for learning developed in 1906, James B. Thelen writes.
Pet Peeves in College Admissions
Jim Jump offers some easy ways colleges could improve the admissions process.
Through Her Son’s Eyes
Longtime community college educator Elizabeth M. Benton writes of newly experiencing community college after her son enrolls.
Gentrification Matters
Scott McLemee reviews Leslie Kern’s Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies.
Students Want to Be Involved in Decision-Making About Their Futures. Higher Ed Must Let Them.
Information on progress toward graduation, improved tools for communicating with professors and staff, and data privacy protections would help students to make informed decisions and succeed, writes Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger.
Mispricing Tuition
Charging history or English majors lower tuition in line with lower labor costs could attract back students who have been abandoning the humanities, Fidel J. Tavárez writes.
Can Honors Education Reach More Students?
It should—and it already is—but the fact that few people understand how honors programs are changing is the problem, write Richard Badenhausen and James Buss.
Outsourcing Counseling Comes at a Cost to the Community
Rather than turn to third-party providers, colleges should invest in counselors with a stake in the well-being of the campus community, Philip J. Rosenbaum and Richard E. Webb write.