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‘A Global Crisis of Attacks’
Annual globally focused report documents nearly 300 "attacks" on higher education, including violent assaults against campuses or individual scholars, killings of student protesters, cases of imprisonment or criminal prosecution, and restrictions on academic travel.
7 Hours a Week on Existential Despair
New Penn course is one of several efforts at colleges to try to get students to engage in quiet reflection and to set aside their phones and careerism.
The Case Against Alphabetical Naming of Authors
New study suggests that the practice -- dominant in some fields -- unfairly penalizes those whose last names are at the end.
Careful Consent
Author discusses her new book on "hookup culture" on college campuses and how universities can improve their education around sex and Title IX.
Opinion
Saving the Humanities and Ben Franklin’s Ass
Assertions about the value of the humanities should not be predominantly defensive responses to those who mistakenly deride the economic outcomes of such an education, warns Robert Newman.
Opinion
The Practical Humanities
They prepare students for the challenges they will confront in their professional, political, social and cultural lives, argues Elizabeth H. Bradley.
What the Doctor Ordered: Medical Schools
As midsize, nonelite private institutions look to the future, they're turning to an unlikely path: building new medical schools.
Opinion
Billion-Year Spree
In On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, Martin Rees encourages us to think beyond the new norms of diminished and collapsing expectations, writes Scott McLemee.