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A Tipping Point?
Omar Barghouti explains why support for the academic boycott of Israel is increasing -- and why he thinks this is a good thing.
A Dangerous Policy
The new Kansas rules on social media take away professors' First Amendment rights, in part by grossly misapplying Supreme Court rulings, writes Frank D. LoMonte.
Lunch for 9 Million?
Many college students go hungry. Wick Sloane's higher ed reform plan: Give every Pell Grant student a peanut butter and jelly sandwich each day.
Class Warfare in Academe
Peter D.G. Brown considers the real winners and real fatalities of the academic workforce.
The Great Bookie
Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain.
Signing Away Rights
Binding arbitration clauses in enrollment forms for for-profit higher ed leave students without legal rights when they have been ripped off, writes Stephen Burd.
Change Is Coming
Current business models and out-of-date curricular and teaching models need to be reformed for higher education to fulfill its crucial roles, writes Dan Greenstein.
Disrupting the Disruptors
A key principle -- that education is a public good -- needs to be central to discussions about how to change higher education, writes James Grossman.