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Don't Ride the Bandwagon
Just because a teaching idea is hot doesn't mean you need to embrace it, writes Rob Weir.
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The National College Degree
The Education Department's new Online Skills Academy could be the first step to an alternative degree pathway, Paul LeBlanc writes, one that is nationally offered, low-cost and competency-based.
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Humanities Strengthen Science
A visit to one of the country's most distinctive medical museums reminds Elizabeth H. Simmons how the humanities can bolster science and why science is best learned in social context.
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Technology Can Help Save the Liberal Arts
Rather than threaten the humanities and other non-vocational fields, innovations in delivering education can strengthen them and ensure that more people have access to them, writes Gunnar Counselman.
Healing War Wounds
Disabled veterans at U. of Pittsburgh's college transition program work in a lab to develop assistive technologies -- gaining STEM training and helping other veterans with impairments.
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Becoming a Freshman, Again
Julie Wollman, a university president, shares what she learned about teaching and learning by taking a course -- in an unfamiliar subject -- with undergraduates.
A for Effort
Princeton faculty panel urges end to limit on A-range grades. Wellesley professors publish journal article on unintended negative consequences of strict rules to combat grade inflation.
XBA Certificate for Veterans
Fullbridge gets into the credential business by partnering with Concordia University Chicago on new graduate certificate aimed at veterans of the U.S. military.