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Drawing the Line at the Eff Word

We in higher education should set an example of professionalism and clean up our language, especially when it comes to the “queen mother of dirty words,” argues Brent Foster.

Ethical College Admissions: Economics Once Again

Jim Jump considers the conflicts between doing the right thing, doing the right thing to help the bottom line and doing what you can afford.

What Makes a Good Free College Plan?

It is important to ask crucial funding questions about such plans now, argues Bob Samuels.

Proposed Federal Policy Would Cripple University Research

A proposal by the federal Office of Management and Budget would leave higher education research institutions in every state in an impossible situation, write the chief research officers of 12 Florida colleges and universities.

Missing Voices on Sexual Assault Response

Federal officials won’t grasp the complexity of the debate over campus sexual violence without hearing from those who understand it best: student affairs professionals, Lee Burdette Williams argues.

Teaching With Emerging Technologies

Michelle Pacansky-Brock says digital learning is reshaping the higher ed landscape, and suggests five things instructors need to succeed.

There’s No Success Like Failure

Robert Ubell reports how massive open online courses are testing personalizing online learning through positive feedback to mistakes.

‘Vice’ Precedents

Mark Stein’s Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs and Bowling From the Pilgrims to the Present tracks how the vice of one century, such as bowling or playing cards, can become the wholesome family recreation of another, writes Scott McLemee.