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Jacques Barzun: Anti-Educationist?
Was a legendary humanist and professor opposed to higher ed? Scott McLemee looks at the record.
Holding Faculty Accountable
Post-tenure review, with real rigor and due process, can protect the truly important faculty rights, writes Elizabeth Hoffman.
Formerly Known as Students
MOOCs are changing the relationships that are at the center of higher education, and those changes could end up affecting all colleges, writes Alison Byerly.
Foreign Students and Tolerance - I
Chris R. Glass and Larry A. Braskamp write that colleges have responsibilities to prevent the racist incidents and isolation that have been reported recently.
Foreign Students and Tolerance - II
Colleges should confront the reality that many who enroll from abroad have ill-informed and racist attitudes about some minority groups, writes Zack Ritter.
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.
Going Meta on the Data
You leave digital footprints when you do research. Scott McLemee listens to the librarians who follow them.
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.