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Subprime Student Loans
Federal loans should go to those who are most likely to benefit from higher education, not to everyone who can enroll, writes Jackson Toby.
Soon-to-Be Open Secret
A federal investigation into admissions preferences for men will expose a serious problem, and raise the question of why college leaders won't talk about it, writes Richard Whitmire.
A Semester of Midnights
Forty-five large pizzas, one U.S. senator, and Aristotle and the rhetorical triangle. Wick Sloane and his students report from the land of late night classes.
Calling the 'Inertia Busters'
Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a tough message to state colleges last month: Despite the cascading effects of the recession...
Where Are the Students?
Young people are surprisingly absent from the health care debate, even though the stakes are high for them, write Laura Stark and her students.
A Gladiator of Letters
The Savage Detectives and 2666 make literature feel like a matter of life and death. Scott McLemee interviews a prominent Bolaño-logist.
The Wrong Rescue Plan
Public universities need help, but that doesn't mean the values of the Morrill Act should be discarded by favoring a few institutions over the rest, writes M. Duane Nellis.
Who Benefits?
When American students want to do good in the developing world, do they have the tools to help or are they going to be a burden on those who do? Debra Carney asks some tough questions.