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Introducing ‘Just Explain It to Me!’
A new blog that aims to break down notoriously confusing, perplexing and annoying systems and practices in higher education.
Free College or Bust
It is dismayingly shortsighted for public four-year schools to advocate against free community college.
Why Not Use Record Endowment Returns to Promote Equity?
Given their endowments’ soaring value, elite universities have a moral duty to expand access and do more to contribute to the public good.
Overcoming New-Job Anxiety
Diane A. Safer provides specific recommendations for both a career counselor guiding Ph.D. grads and postdocs before they start new positions as well as those trainees once they’re on the job.
Making Recommendation Letters Even More Meaningless
Rebecca Vidra knew recommendation letters as a recipient of them, but not as the mother of an applicant.
Beyond Gatekeepers
Especially if trained to do so, we faculty members should shift our mind-sets and become much more a part of students’ network of mental health care, writes Krista Speicher Sarraf.
Bloomfield Pulls the Goalie
A test case for an unusual move.
Cancel That Regularly Scheduled Meeting
Our predictably irrational Zoom behaviors.