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Higher Education's Big Lie

The notion that education, particularly a college degree, is the key to career success is a particularly American idea. It...

The Content and the Buzz

Rumors of Book Expo's demise are greatly exaggerated. Scott McLemee returns from the university press "ghetto."

Diversity's Next Challenges

In the early 1990s, two social psychologists conducted an experiment to see whether our society’s negative racial stereotypes affect the...

My Application, AACC President

Wick Sloane thinks he's the right man to lead the American Association of Community Colleges. Here's his platform.

Speaking Through Verse

William L. Fox on why, as a president, he works poetry into many of his speeches, and why doing so resonates with alumni.

Beware Higher Ed's 'Mad Men'

In 1981, Grey Poupon took the nation by storm. Although the little-known Dijon mustard had been manufactured for more than...

Exposed!

University presses are rethinking how they approach the publishing industry's biggest shindig. Scott McLemee reports.

Open Door to What?

Amy E. Slaton questions the assumptions behind the push for speedy job training at community colleges.