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Columns Learning Innovation

Designing for Lifetime Learners

Why universities need a strategic marketing shift.

By James DeVaney et al.

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My Conversation With AI’s Ayn Rand

AI may help higher ed with its viewpoint diversity challenges.

By Steven Tepper

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Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

Why Review?

We review because it’s what we do, and it’s who we are.

By Douglas Dowland

Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

Helping Students Become Accident-Prone: a Review of ‘Hacking College’

How do we balance the needs of scale and efficiency with the obvious benefits of happy accidents?

By Matt Reed

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

An IDP of Our Own

Career development professionals now have a career planning tool designed just for them.

By Ioannis Vasileios Chremos et al.

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For New High School Grads, Workforce Pell Might Be Wrong Place to Start

Many young people will be better served by going straight to degree programs—not using up their Pell eligibility on short-term programs. The regulations should account for this.

By Kim Cook

Columns Debatable Ideas

An Unjust Suspension in Oklahoma

It’s time for people on all sides in all cases to condemn interim suspensions on a universal, consistent and principled basis.

By John K. Wilson

Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

No, It’s Not (Mostly) About Tuition

Debunking myths about community college enrollment.

By Matt Reed