Filter & Sort
From Retention to Persistence
Three major experiences shape student motivation to stay in college and graduate, writes Vincent Tinto.
Our History, Our Selves
As we consider which aspects of racism we in higher education can most effectively address, we need to make our institutions ideal places for cultivating the sociological imagination, writes Judith Shapiro.
Unwelcome Innovation
Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair.
He Said, She Said
In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee.
The Tenured IT Expert?
Technology experts should have the academic freedom to speak on behalf of what's best for education, not just a university's bottom line, Jonathan A. Poritz and Jonathan Rees argue.
Liberal Arts, Inflexible Structures
The real obstacles to sustaining the liberal arts have to do with traditional organizational structures and curricular approaches, argue Peter Stokes and Chris Slatter.
Much More Than Money
Providing adequate financial support plays only a small part in helping disadvantaged students to successfully complete an undergraduate degree, writes Devorah Lieberman.
Reclaim Your Buzzwords
Rather than shun technologies hyped by companies with grand promises, faculty members should force vendors to explain how the tools will help professors teach and students learn, Michael Feldstein argues.