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Higher Education: Thoughts Keeping Us Up at Night
What may rattle through your head when you’re lying awake.
A College Leader’s Guide to Risk-Taking
What’s a risk? Who decides? And at what cost? C. K. Gunsalus, Robert A. Easter, Nicholas C. Burbules and BrandE Faupell advise on dealing with all types of risk, including that of inaction.
How to Kill Innovation: The Florida ‘Master Plan’
Attacks on institutional autonomy, academic freedom and tenure, and diversity initiatives undermine the climate for innovation, Michael Lanford and William G. Tierney write.
The University of California Abandons Progress and Preserves Convention
The university system's new policy banning fully online degrees ignores the needs of today's students and leans on outdated information.
The End of Rankings
William D. Adams writes that it’s time for all colleges to follow the lead of Colorado College and drop U.S. News.
Finding a Career Mentor (in Addition to an Academic One)
Your thesis adviser may be the best person to guide your research, but conversations about your career may need to happen outside your department, Daniel J. Moglen advises.
Building Up Books
New guidelines aim to make peer review more inclusive while also acknowledging the stresses on the peer-review process, Andrew Berzanskis, Jane Bunker and Rebecca Colesworthy write.