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College and Beginning Afresh

We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik.
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A Fantastic 'Breaking News' Filtered Through Higher Ed Anxieties

What the best book I’ve read on the newspaper digital disruption might say about the future of higher ed.
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Outside Academe: The First Year of Retirement

Michael Morris muses with some humor about the benefits and challenges, while offering suggestions for other academics.
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Against the New Normal

In advance of International Human Rights Day, Scott McLemee reviews Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky.
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A New Chapter

A poem by Laurence Musgrove on reading books.
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How to be a Better Graduate Student

Advice from the inside on how to reduce stress and use your school's resources more effectively.
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Why We Can't Teach Johnny to Write

. . . and how we actually could, if we make writing a practice, not a punitive test.