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Transparency, or Redundancy?
The Obama administration’s push to standardize financial aid packets will do little to address college affordability, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein.
The Declaration of Independence
Kieran Healy imagines the documents the UVa Board of Visitors intended to issue.
Whose Intellectual Property?
Many universities' IP policies at one time respected faculty rights, and need to return to that approach, writes Cary Nelson.
The Sporting Life
A new book denounces competitive athletics as "a global plague." Scott McLemee pulls no punches.
When University Presses Fail
Closures speak volumes about a university's priorities and about academe's priorities, writes Jeffrey R. Di Leo.
Knee-Jerk Reforms on Remediation
The conclusion that remedial education has failed is based on flawed interpretations of data and unsupported assertions, write Hunter R. Boylan and Alexandros Goudas.
Shame on the Shame List
The Education Department's system for identifying the most expensive colleges is misleading and creates the wrong incentives for institutions, write Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman.
No Back Row
Steve Cohen writes that interactive online education, not MOOCs, may be the real challenge for traditional higher ed.