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Income Data and the Degree
The gainful employment rule may be on hold, but there’s no reason the government can’t take advantage of the data it produces to give colleges information about their graduates’ success, writes Scott Kinney.
Opinion
Going Meta on the Data
You leave digital footprints when you do research. Scott McLemee listens to the librarians who follow them.
Opinion
The Liberal Arts, Economic Value, and Leisure
Stop trying to make an economic case for the liberal arts, writes Johann Neem. Their value to society and citizens is too important for that.
Diversity or Discretion?
Richard D. Kahlenberg questions the rationale for the University of Texas defense of affirmative action.
Opinion
Gore Vidal and Harvard
Jon Wiener shares some of the highlights of his discussions with the late author about the university he was supposed to attend.
Academic Hunger Games
Now that she's an adjunct again, on her terms, Carolyn Foster Segal ponders why colleges pay part-timers so much less than they pay their full-time colleagues -- and proposes a new class of academic: the adjunct committee member.
Opinion
The Nobel Satirist
The most famous literary award in the world finally catches up with Chinese literature. Scott McLemee discusses Mo Yan.
To the Barricades -- With Data
The recent political flap over unemployment rates shows just why federal data collection efforts need the support of scholars and the public, writes Felicia B. LeClere.