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Opinion

Helping Faculty Members Cultivate Joy in Writing

Academics internalize that we must “publish or perish,” but that message creates fear, loathing and pressure, write Deborah J. Cohan and Barbara J. Risman.

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Opinion

No More Job Postings

After Letitia Henville heard many grad students say they didn’t apply for positions she knew they qualified for, she took a new approach to the hiring process.

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Opinion

Campuses, Climate Change and ‘How Infrastructure Works’

Understanding how the infrastructural systems that enable our campuses to run are dependent on stable climate.

Opinion

Teaching for Tomorrow’s Employment Landscape

Preparing undergraduates for the jobs of the future.

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Opinion

California Should Create a New ‘New College’

In condemning Republican assaults on higher ed, we should ask too what Democrats are doing to defend it, Paul Hansen writes.

Opinion

Present-Day Lessons From the Early 1970s

How the early 2020s mirror and diverge from the early 1970s and what we might learn from the similarities and contrasts.

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Opinion

How Can We Address Campus Conflict?

Megan Halteman Zwart provides advice on how to create conditions that help all students to learn amid culture wars and national controversies.

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Opinion

Higher Ed on the Hot Seat (Again)

Columbia’s president has a chance to tell a different story during today’s Congressional hearing on antisemitism, Teresa Valerio Parrot and Erin A. Hennessy write.