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Facing Reality
The Grambling athletes' boycott is just the latest sign that it's time for historically black colleges to move to Division II, and to spend more of their limited dollars on education, not athletics, writes Aaron N. Taylor.
Persona Grata
An eminent professor of writing offers readers instruction in the secret arts of the persona. Scott McLemee looks behind the mask.
A Faustian Bargain?
William G. Durden considers why adaptive- and competency-based learning are attracting so much attention, and worries about their impact on traditional-age students.
Death of the Humanities
An experience teaching in Bangladesh -- and the reaction of his American mentors -- leaves Se-Woong Koo wondering what his profession really stands for.
The Student Solution to Affirmative Action
Students who favor affirmative action should follow their principles and help minority students -- by choosing not to apply to highly selective colleges, writes Mark Bauerlein.
Wrong Question on Entrepreneurship
We absolutely can teach people what they need to know to be innovators -- the right question is how it is done, writes Wendy E.F. Torrance.
Fixing Big-Time College Football
Universities won't get rid of football, but must find a better solution to the vexing financial issues the commercial enterprise creates, writes John V. Lombardi. His solution: the University Football Corp.
Business and the Liberal Arts
The best preparation for life and career -- be it in finance, entrepreneurship or something else -- is a liberal arts degree, writes Edgar M. Bronfman.