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Pursuing Professional Development for Career Clarity
Ph.D.s can identify appropriate career paths by conducting a self-assessment, networking and identifying their skills gaps and how to fill them, writes Mabel Perez-Oquendo.
Advice for Presidents From the Ghost of Diana Vreeland
What the former Vogue editor might have told today’s campus leaders about how to dress (and very much how not to).
No, Yale Is Not the Answer to Economic Mobility
A response to Ryan Craig.
Teach Your Students to Be Builders, Not Critics
Eboo Patel calls on college educators to teach students how to build a better social order, not merely criticize the existing one.
Would Free College Boost Humanities Majors?
I asked, and 266 people to answered that question.
Uncloaking the Hidden Force of Whiteness
Our antiracism work on campuses often fails to examine how such pervasive, systemic whiteness protects itself, writes Michael H. Gavin.
Friday Fragments
An unusual September, a survey crashes and burns, the “community college wage penalty” is discredited, and the uses of “notwithstanding.”
Espionage! (Not)
Scott McLemee reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.