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What the Freshmen Are Reading
Many common reading assignments this year focus on issues of diversity, free speech and immigration.
‘The Educated Underclass’
Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students.
Opinion
Sunspots and Poetry
Scott McLemee reviews Tracy Daugherty's Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.
University of Iowa Cuts Journal Subscriptions
Blaming unsustainable price increases, librarians at the university reach out to faculty members and graduate students to draw up a list of 820 journal subscriptions to cancel.
‘The College Completion Glass -- Half-Full or Half-Empty?’
Author discusses new book about flaws in the way many people evaluate college completion.
Opinion
All Fall
Scott McLemee offers a roundup of books from this coming autumn's university press catalogs and more.
Are ‘Big Deals’ Actually Good Deals?
Cost is the No. 1 reason why colleges end their “big deals” with publishers, but not everyone thinks the agreements are really that expensive.
‘Cracks in the Ivory Tower’
Authors discuss their new book on "moral mess" of higher education.