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Overlapping Crises

Jamshed Bharucha considers the differing challenges facing higher education in India and the United States.

'The Cusp of Every Bibliomaniac's Dream'

It is possible that I have too many books. There, I said it. (That felt weird.) Heading off to visit...

Assessing NSSE

The survey of student engagement has been widely embraced as an accountability tool. But it's flawed as a measure of campus learning, Mark Schneider writes, and even weaker when used for comparing colleges.

(Skilled) Self-Presentation

Timothy Burke wonders whether students -- despite all the speaking they do in college -- learn how to talk about themselves and their ideas.

A Defense of the Lecture

Adam Kotsko questions the idea that small discussion-based courses are the ideal form of undergraduate education.

Reviving the Academic Library

Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem.

Palintology

A celebrity so big that party politics can't hold her. Scott McLemee takes a look at Going Rouge.

What Am I Doing Here?

Brian Rosenberg explains why, as a college president, he has a high bar for speaking out on public issues.