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Future-Focused Assessment
Measuring what students have learned and can do is hard enough, but we really should be trying to assess what our institutions have prepared them to learn later, writes Mark Salisbury.
Don’t Dismiss Performance Funding
The state budgeting strategy isn’t a panacea, but a recent study unfairly and simplistically condemns it, write Nancy Shulock and Martha Snyder.
Crisis and Critique
In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman challenges one of the inescapable concepts of modern life. Scott McLemee risks an opinion.
The Courage to Be Ignorant
Adam Kotsko considers the advantages of having professors teach in areas other than their expertise.
When Women Lean In, Men Grow Up
Janel Curry considers how increased gender balance in the administrative ranks affects all college officials -- and how some "team building" activities should be abandoned, just like male-only leadership teams.
By Popular Demand
A classic study of American Populism has reached its second edition -- 50 years after the first one appeared. Scott McLemee gives thanks.
We Are Not Hypnotized
Responding to another essay, John Raucci Jr. says that professors can be skeptical of online learning and want to experiment with technology-enabled education.
Corporate Values
A controversy at the U. of Michigan shows why professors must be involved -- and why outside consultants may steer in the wrong direction -- in financial strategies being adopted in higher ed, write Anthony Mora and Alexandra Minna Stern.