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3 Questions for Suzanne Dove and Patrice Torcivia Prusko

A conversation about women and academic innovation leadership.

A large inflatable "A" is attached to a ballon pump in a photo illustration intended to depict the concept of grade inflation.
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On the Predictability of Grades

If something does not change, grades will lose all meaning, Chris Smith writes.

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Academia Broke Me

Becoming an academic editor gave me my life back, writes Paulina S. Cossette, who shares the many benefits of pursuing it and other alternatives.

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Opinion

New Policies Suppress Pro-Palestinian Speech

Radhika Sainath writes that the rewriting of policies to restrict protests over Gaza will have dire consequences for campus speech.

The cover of Nicholas Lemann's book "Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing." The cover is spare, with blue and teal text font against an off-white background.
Opinion

To Test or Not to Test

Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman review Nicholas Lemann’s Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing.

Opinion

Curating the Immigrant Experience

How should museums and high school and college curricula present the immigrant story?

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Departmental Gatekeepers of Faculty Success

Ensuring that individuals in a unit are successful while also maintaining its stature can impact chairs’ decisions in ways that contribute to bias, write Kim Avrama Blackwell, Marjolein van der Meulen and Lori Setton.

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Behind the University’s Timeless Facade

Over the past half century, universities have undergone a seismic shift in their mission and functions—a shift little understood by the public and most faculty members.