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Dear White Faculty, We Must Do Better
How did you support Black faculty’s flourishing today, Jenn Stroud Rossmann asks, given the prevalence of bias, invisible labor and other challenges that they regularly confront?
4 Ways the Columbia ‘Leveling the Learning Curve’ Conference Was Different
A different model for gathering.
The Making of the Modern Self
Taking a big-picture, multidisciplinary approach to the emergence of modern selfhood.
We Can (and Should) Do Better Than the AP Exam
A Q&A with Annie Abrams, author of a new book challenging the power of the College Board and its AP exams.
A Not-So-Silent Crisis
Too often motherhood seems incompatible with academe, and colleges should actually do something about it, writes Irina Popescu.
Making Mastery a Core Educational Value
What instructors can learn from Adam Gopnik’s The Real Work: The Mystery of Mastery.
In Ph.D. Funding, Identity Shouldn’t Trump Merit
The practice of awarding Ph.D. student funding on the basis of racial, ethnic or gender identity undermines the research enterprise, James Moore II, Kursat Christoff Pekgoz and Spiro Pantazatos write.
Why Faculty Members Should Be Expert Tour Guides
Students don’t have the time to explore the enormous amount of information bombarding them and achieve the learning outcomes they need, writes Susan Hibbard.