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Students Don’t Read Enough? Don’t Blame the Profs

Blame the jobs that compete for their time. Blame the messages our institutions are sending about what’s worth their time—and what the purpose of their degree is.

By Hannah Pittard

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The Odd Couple: Is Shared Governance Really Shared?

Rachel and Gordon talk about the rights and responsibilities of faculty senates.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

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Letters

An Education in Psychology Offers Multiple Paths to Success

Study promotes an overly narrow view of psychology careers.

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Columns Debatable Ideas

Remembering Harry Keyishian, 1932–2026

We’ve lost Harry, but we can’t afford to lose the legal protections that will forever bear his name.

By John K. Wilson

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Fire First, Settle Later: Academia’s Troubling New MO?

Denying tenure-line faculty their legal rights comes with costs.

By Deepa Das Acevedo

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The Challenges of Marketing a Product We Can’t Define

Unlike consumer brands, higher education’s product is more ambiguous, and that has implications for how and where marcomm shows up.

By Matt McFadden

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3 Questions for Amrit Ahluwalia, Host of the EdUp PCO Podcast

The future of professional, continuing and online education.

By Joshua Kim

An illustration of a person balancing on a seesaw: on one side is a computer and other work items; on the other is a beach umbrella and towel suggesting leisure time. The illustration depicts the concept of a person struggling with work-life balance.

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Career Advice

Forget ‘Work-Life Balance’

It’s the wrong framework—and it may be quietly harming us.

By Olga Kipnis