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Ethical College Admissions: Identifying Potential
Jim Jump considers how the National Football League and top colleges identify talent.
Not a Magic Number
As colleges embrace 15 to Finish strategies to bolster completion, we must not create a situation where part-time students become even more likely to drop out, argues Karen Stout.
Reflections on the ASU Convening on Future of Learning in the Digital Age
Quietly unconferencing the unconference.
Caring for a Sick or Disabled Loved One
What to do when you have to be a caregiver and a graduate student at the same time.
Nepotism in the U.S.: Starting to Resemble Ukraine
In many countries around the globe nepotism in higher education is not unusual at all.
The Racial Politics of Citation
The lack of citations of scholars of color furthers racial dominance and forecloses potentially valuable avenues of intellectual inquiry, argues Victor Ray.
The Distraction Attraction
A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.
Subverting That End-of-Semester Exhaustion
Some experiments for creating schedules that may lessen the physical and emotional exhaustion so common at the end of the spring semester.