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Ethical College Admissions: Luring Students
Jim Jump considers some of the issues raised in recruiting tactics used after May 1.
Campus Carry Is Not About Preventing Mass Shootings
Concealed carriers aren’t likely to make effective interventions, and such a focus distracts us from the best arguments for campus carry, which should be primarily about the individual right to self-defense and self-determination, argues Erik Gilbert.
Orwell Isn’t Quite the Way You Think He Is
Who knew that Donald Trump would be good for the book trade, asks Jeffrey J. Williams, and especially one novel published almost 70 years ago?
Paying It Forward to Graduation
We in higher education must make it easier for first-generation students to find staff and faculty members who are dedicated to improving such students’ chances of graduation, argues Judith S. White.
Lowering Online Student Dropout Rates
Vincent Oria and Edina Renfro-Michel agrue that it’s not a surprise that many students fail to pass enough online courses to graduate. They say their two colleges' initiative greatly improves the odds.
10 Challenges for Scholars Writing for Wider Audiences
Academics can -- and should -- speak to the general public, and they can do so without compromising their scholarly lives, argue Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost.
Here There Is Danger
Chad Raymond highlights four signs that suggest a higher ed institution may be on the path toward unrecoverable failure.