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Can Civics Education in Colleges Strengthen Democracy?
Only if it goes well beyond calls to improve civic knowledge, cultivate responsible citizenship and nurture tolerance and civility.
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Oral Exams in a Virtual Classroom
Offering exams in that format can be beneficial to both the instructor and the students in multiple ways, writes Kevin Sun, who provides recommendations for faculty who are considering it.
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No Return to ‘Normal’
The placid ivy-covered walls and calm quad will remain when COVID is vanquished, but the university will never be the same. We are forever changed -- by the disease and by the advance of technology and competition in this, the fourth industrial revolution.
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IRB Roadblock
An overly restrictive institutional review board can take down an entire academic program and weaken the research reputation of a university, writes Dale R. Wagner.
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Streaming Workouts, Home Gyms and Campus-Based Learning
Why the future of residential education is seamless, social and personalized.
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Sharing Our Stories
The ups and downs of building a dissertation -- the process itself -- are components of academic work that we should reflect on, learn from and share with each other, argues Lucy H. Partman.
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A Natural Experiment
Both the use of COVID-19 stimulus funding to pay back outstanding student debt balances and federal relief proposals have the same major flaw: they are one-time options, writes Catharine B. Hill.