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Fifty Shades of Instructions
Among its many lessons, the Harvard cheating scandal proves that lack of specificity on exams or syllabuses is dangerous, Carolyn Foster Segal warns.
Quitting an Adjunct Career
Harvest Moon reflects on why she loved teaching, and why she had to stop.
Informing Students About Islam
In a combustible atmosphere such as today's, college leaders should do all they can to make sure students understand religious diversity, write Eboo Patel and Mary Ellen Giess.
A Learning Society
Even in times of economic turmoil -- especially then -- higher education must be expanded to serve adults, for them and for us, writes Mike Rose.
Wheelchair Citizenship
There's more to the American past than able-bodied pioneers. Scott McLemee reads A Disability History of the United States.
'My Vote Doesn't Matter'
Colleges can help students surmount political cynicism, write Paul Loeb, Alexander Astin and Parker J. Palmer.
A Call to Serve
The tragedy in Libya illustrates why American students need to be inspired to study the region and to serve their country with their knowledge, writes James I. Gadsden.
Preserve Real Application Essays
If colleges don't want glib, packaged answers, they should stop asking easy questions, writes Peter Laipson.