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For-Profit Status Is Not the Problem
Proprietary institutions need to shun short-run investor thinking in favor of long-term thinking with students and social purpose in mind, Jorge Klor de Alva argues.
Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic
How we communicate about disease can have consequences for prevention and treatment. Scott McLemee consults a new book on a recent epidemic.
Commencement Shouldn't Be Bread and Circuses
It's time to end the competition for celebrity speakers, Patricia McGuire argues.
Professors Need Not Apply
The NCAA's new governance model aims to put college sports on a stronger academic footing -- so, Josephine Potuto wonders, why will faculty members have far less authority in it?
The Plight of the Nonrenewed
An adjunct not on the schedule for fall struggles to make sense of the news -- and appeals to campus administrators to deal with larger issues surrounding contingent employment.
How to Evaluate Academic Research
The value of scholarly work should be measured not just by how widely it is read, Johann Neem argues, but by a better understanding of how expert knowledge is created and shared within and beyond the university.
A Defense of Liberal Learning
Glenn C. Altschuler considers how the new book 'Beyond the University' reviews the ideas of key American thinkers, and the disconnect between those ideas and today's debates about higher education.