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Career Planning Beyond the B.A.
If the quest to help prepare students for careers after graduation, colleges have an ally in "XBA" programs, writes Peter Olson.
In Search of the Missing Link
Citing Internet sources in legal decisions and scholarship is the new normal -- and so are disappearing web pages. Scott McLemee clicks through.
Social Theory Through Complaining
Kieran Healy offers a syllabus on the issues about which grad students complain.
The Stakes for All of Us
It's not MOOCs or administrative bloat that deserve academe's attention, writes Matthew Pratt Guterl. The issue that is destroying opportunity for students like he once was is the defunding of public higher education.
Thank You, Governor Daniels
Carl Weinberg was one of the Indiana professors who used Howard Zinn's work. He writes of finding out that his curricular choices were subject of angry e-mail by his then-governor.
How Not to Become Road Kill
What do Aeneas and Unix have in common? The answer, writes Steven Neshyba, can help the liberal arts thrive in the era of MOOC hype.
Process Over Product
Higher education is suffering from an identity crisis based on elevating the credential over learning, writes Doug Ward.
Guerrilla Ambush
We've learned to tune out the constant bombardment of advertisements. Scott McLemee looks at a new analysis of techniques for commanding consumer attention.