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What Matters More: Skills or Degrees?
We increasingly hear employers, prospective students and futurists saying that it is all about the skills, not about the degree. What does that mean for higher ed?
How Do You Conference?
Best practices, information exchange and scholarship.
The Mismatch Between College Training and Worker Demand
Community college programs don’t adapt all that well to changes in the labor market, Michel Grosz argues.
Improving Research Productivity in Ethiopia — Carrot or Stick?
A system of rewards that recognizes both institutions and individual researchers for high quality problem-solving research, is a far more effective way to encourage research than to make it mandatory.
Cutting Across Disciplinary Boundaries
We need humanists, not just disciplinary specialist
Beating the Summer Writing Blues
Joy Gaston Gayles and Anthony Ocampo share some strategies to help you feel more confident about the quality and quantity of your work over the next few months.
Smart Language Always Puts Your Audience First
As marketers we need to ensure our vocabulary meets audiences where they are and delivers on their expectations, because more often than not, there’s little time to explain.
How the Critical Interview Became a Major Academic Genre
Under the radar as a form of scholarly writing, it has become ubiquitous, explaining the gnarly terrain of theory and arcane realms of scholarship, writes Jeffrey J. Williams.