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Higher Learning, Higher Ground
Does the best case for liberal arts education come from laboratory research? Scott McLemee looks into a neuroscientist's new book.
The Humanities Are an Existentialism
If we only focus on the practical skills students acquire by studying the humanities, we lose sight of their most useful value of all: to help us live meaningful lives, writes Dan Edelstein.
Opinion
Too Tired To Hustle
Nicole Matos sees a mismatch between the jobs her community college students want and those currently available.
Days of Reckoning
Asked to prove how well their students are learning when the assessors come to town, the English faculty at U of All People steps up. Well, sort of, David Galef explains.
Don't Go to College Next Year
Gap years change students in ways that society needs -- and much more should be done to make them a possibility for all students, not just the privileged, Joe O'Shea writes.
(This) Adjunct is Dead
One longtime philosophy adjunct comes to terms with academic job market -- on his own terms.
It Ain’t What I Say
When administrators about issues such as assessment and competency-based learning, writes Judith Shapiro, the language they use is crucial if they want to engage faculty members.
Clio and Her Sisters
A new book portrays the muse of history as multitasking and interdisciplinary. Scott McLemee looks at her in a new light.