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The Hidden Costs of Open Educational Resources
While certainly not opposed to saving students money, Stuart Barbier questions the assumption that free or low-cost textbooks are a better choice for students simply for that reason.
‘Squid Game’ as Allegory and Cultural Critique
What Netflix’s dystopian thriller reveals about the misguided purposes, ethics and direction of elite higher education.
Navigating Graduate School: It’s All About the Process
Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan explores how students can best navigate academe’s hidden curriculum of implicit and unwritten expectations, values and rules.
Scenes From an Open House
When people, and bees, descend on campus.
Holistic Admissions Is Just a Start
Higher education needs much more to achieve true diversity, writes Karen Cox.
Reviving the Humanities Through General Education
Andrew Delbanco and Loni Bordoloi Pazich describe a model for engaging students who seek respite from the pre-professional treadmill and for expanding teaching opportunities for faculty.
Elite Education and ‘The Inequality Machine’
Has college become an accelerant of privilege instead of an engine of opportunity?
An Ethos of Care
Emily Skop, Martina Angela Caretta, Caroline Faria and Jessi L. Smith offer other scholars engaged in research collaborations a pledge to help foster and sustain more equitable relationships.