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It's the Faculty's Job, Too
The career center can't do it all -- professors in liberal arts fields must also take responsibility for their students' job prospects, Patricia Okker argues.
On Affordability, Who Decides?
Most policy discussions about whether higher ed is affordable, and for whom, exclude the people the question is about -- low-income families, Jacob Gross writes.
'Prophets, Gurus and Pundits'
A new book argues that public intellectuals possess not just knowledge and opinions but something academics lack: style. Scott McLemee considers the rhetoric.
Shared or Divided Governance?
Professors must have real input in key campus decisions, including more access at senior administrative levels, but full votes of the faculty are not the most effective way to do so, writes Brian Rosenberg.
Close Business Schools / Save the Humanities
William Major challenges the way market economics have been used to justify priorities in higher education.
Competency vs. Mastery
As enthusiasm grows for academic programs based on something other than "seat time," there's a big difference between helping students achieve "master" subject matter and ensuring their true "competence" to apply learning in practice, John F. Ebersole argues.
We Need Trustee Self-Policing
When board members are hurting their institutions more than helping them, it's the role of other board members -- not politicians -- to intervene, writes Richard D. Legon.
'The Bigot'
Combating prejudice is like the labors of Sisyphus. Scott McLemee interviews an author who keeps on pushing.