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My Book, My Dreams
What happens when you pour all your effort into a work -- and hardly anyone seems to notice the result?
Opinion
Make Maintenance of Effort Permanent
Congress should regularly require states to maintain their spending on higher education, F. King Alexander argues.
'Economy of Attention'
It is not only people living on islands who count as insular -- etymology notwithstanding. Consider a recent piece by...
Going Public
It's time for all colleges to release an understandable report on how they measure learning, and accreditors should require such disclosure, writes Douglas C. Bennett.
The Transgender Athlete
Colleges and athletic departments need new policies to promote opportunity for everyone to participate in sports programs, write Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll.
Reconsider the Credit Hour
Higher education leaders should work together to find an alternative to the Carnegie Unit for measuring academic credit -- unless they want the government to impose one, writes Steven D. Crow.
The Carnegie Unit: Articulate and Expressive
There is no national emergency, writes Bernard Fryshman: Higher education's longstanding method of defining academic credit remains valid today.
Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work
Even old news can be dismal, and that is the case at hand. For about 40 years, by my calculation...