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A Grandmother’s View of the College Admissions Process
What one academic learned while watching her granddaughter.
The Everyday Work of Transformation
Simple, scalable frameworks can help students understand the why of what they’re learning, Cathy N. Davidson and Rachel Stephenson write.
Rethinking Parking
A review of Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar.
Levels of Accuracy
As an academic, you are sometimes, maybe, kinda allowed to write simple declarative sentences, writes Rachel Toor.
Friday Fragments
Reader responses, a leadership dilemma and a moral victory.
Can a College Class Teach You How to Lead a Meaningful, Joyful Life?
Ivy-plus approaches to a well-designed, purposeful life.
Symptomatic Reading
Scott McLemee surveys a psychoanalytic critic’s response to the pandemic.
We Can Say the Word ‘Fat’
Most of us in academe would rather ignore the needs of marginalized people than recognize antifat biases, but we must do better, writes Kallie Menard.