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December 5, 2019
More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long.
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December 4, 2019
To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies, Tuija Pulkkinen and Anthony Waas write, and that will require us to break our interdisciplinary boundaries.
December 3, 2019
Despite the efforts of many people in higher education, student experiences reflect and reinforce broader patterns of inequality, write Elizabeth Bradley and Candice M. Lowe Swift, who describe a large-scale and ongoing approach to help meet that challenge.
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December 4, 2019
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November 26, 2019
Recent studies have produced an avalanche of questionable statistics, argues F. King Alexander, to the effect that public institutions do not warrant greater taxpayer support.
November 25, 2019
The events are partly the consequence of expectations that the delivery of “diverse” content will by itself engineer more equitable and inclusive campus communities, argues David Shih.
November 25, 2019
Varsity Blues has exposed just how bad it is, writes Ryan Craig.
November 22, 2019
Scott McLemee surveys upcoming university press books that, in anticipation of the coming year's presidential campaigns, focus on the White House or the road to it.
November 21, 2019
Rural-serving higher education institutions have a distinct opportunity and obligation to build human capital and engage in wealth-creation efforts in their communities, writes Marion Terenzio.
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