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Charlottesville: American Tragedy Redux
Charlottesville was yet another act in a long-running saga of racial hatred, writes Patricia McGuire, and the mobs of white men on the march have made the best possible case for affirmative action.
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Ethical College Admissions: Who Benefits From a ‘Million-Dollar Scholar’?
Should any program encourage high school students to apply to 100 or more colleges? Jim Jump considers the issues.
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A ‘Distance-Traveled’ Model for College Admissions
Selective colleges should focus less on what applicants have achieved and more on what they’ve overcome to do so, Ryan Craig argues.
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The Neglected Stepchild of University Life
Kate Rousmaniere, both a professor and the mayor of her college town, explores the myriad issues surrounding off-campus housing.
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A Memory of Total Eclipse
As we await the arrival of the next solar eclipse, Scott McLemee describes how a group of Chinese researchers bravely studied one almost 50 years ago.
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Flipped Online Course Improves Math Success
Claire Stuve says research conducted by the University of Toledo shows that blended and adaptive learning lead to the most successful outcomes.
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Giving People What They Paid For
Drew Story outlines a simple approach academics can use to increase access to research and restore its public value.
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Bad Idea About Writing: Anybody Can Teach It
The system at too many colleges is stuck in a cycle of insisting that some work is lower value than other work, then using the fact that it abuses the people who do that work as proof of its low value, argues Seth Kahn.