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Restore the Purpose of the Common Application
Jim Wolfston says that it should focus on basic information (which should be common to all colleges) and that colleges should then design applications that reflect their values and help students express themselves.
Whose Academic Freedom Is Being Trampled?
Ashley Dawson sees danger in the way presidents -- without consulting professors -- are taking a stand against the boycott of Israeli universities.
Constructive Solutions
Turmoil in the Middle East demonstrates why American higher education should be expanding ties and exchanges with all countries in the region, writes Devorah Lieberman.
Higher Learning, Higher Ground
Does the best case for liberal arts education come from laboratory research? Scott McLemee looks into a neuroscientist's new book.
The Humanities Are an Existentialism
If we only focus on the practical skills students acquire by studying the humanities, we lose sight of their most useful value of all: to help us live meaningful lives, writes Dan Edelstein.
Too Tired To Hustle
Nicole Matos sees a mismatch between the jobs her community college students want and those currently available.
Days of Reckoning
Asked to prove how well their students are learning when the assessors come to town, the English faculty at U of All People steps up. Well, sort of, David Galef explains.
Don't Go to College Next Year
Gap years change students in ways that society needs -- and much more should be done to make them a possibility for all students, not just the privileged, Joe O'Shea writes.