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Reconfiguring the Ph.D.
William Acree describes his university’s attempt to introduce a new, highly transdisciplinary cohort model for incoming graduate students.
Academic Self-Regulation Interventions Can Promote Success for All
For first-generation students as well as their peers, professors can break down barriers to allow students to excel, writes Pola Ham, an assistant professor of occupational therapy.
Transforming Challenged Academic Units
When a unit becomes dysfunctional, leaders may recognize the problem but not know where to begin to resolve it, write Jacob J. Ryder, C. K. Gunsalus, Elizabeth A. Luckman and Nicholas C. Burbules, who offer specific approaches that can help.
The New Nonprofits
How best to prepare majors in the humanities and “soft” social sciences for this rapidly growing sector of employment.
3 Questions for Deborah Dougherty on Higher Ed’s Past and Future
A conversation with the director of the Andison Center for Teaching Excellence at Alma College about higher ed in 2060.
A Dignified Retirement
Much more data are needed to help bring about equitable benefits for adjunct faculty, Adrianna Kezar and Jordan Harper write.
Partnering to Train Ph.D.s to Teach
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Nicholas Papas describe the powerful synergy that can occur between scholarship-oriented students at universities and community college faculty with practical teaching experience.
Rallying Cries or Analytical Tools?
How to bring the language of social justice into the classroom.