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Tenure Isn't the Answer
In a recent essay at Inside Higher Ed, Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, underlined the...
Praise But No Cash
The White House summit offered community colleges a day in the spotlight, writes Wick Sloane. The rest is up to the institutions themselves.
New Metric System?
Measuring scholarly influence by citations made sense... once. Scott McLemee looks at the emerging alternatives.
Support All College Options
The Obama administration is right to recognize the key role of community colleges -- but it should embrace quality for-profit institutions, too, write Jonathan Kaplan and Terry O'Banion.
Fixing the Broken Financing Model
State colleges need a new approach to fund their operations. Public service corporations are one solution, Darryl Greer and Michael Klein argue.
Liberal Arts I: They Keep Chugging Along
The narrative of the decline and fall of humanities and other non-"vocational" fields doesn't hold up to the facts, write W. Robert Connor and Cheryl Ching.
Liberal Arts II: The Economy Requires Them
Champions of liberal education, often on the defensive, should more strongly argue that their programs prepare students for work and life, Richard Greenwald argues.