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Subprime Student Loans

Federal loans should go to those who are most likely to benefit from higher education, not to everyone who can enroll, writes Jackson Toby.
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Ask the Administrator: Is This the Job I Want?

A foreign correspondent writes: I've been in and out of academia in my career in the creative sector, firstly with...
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Gender and Learning Technology

All my bosses have been women. I should say, all my bosses in the world of learning technology. And this...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Now and Then

A week from now, the presents will all be unwrapped, the Christmas cookies mostly eaten—and I'll be sitting in a...
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Soon-to-Be Open Secret

A federal investigation into admissions preferences for men will expose a serious problem, and raise the question of why college leaders won't talk about it, writes Richard Whitmire.
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Casting

I read somewhere that 90 percent of acting is casting. The idea was that plenty of actors are capable of...
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My Gen X Academic Crowd

I've been thinking about how important my Gen X colleagues are in my professional and personal life, and I've been...
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The Academic Traveler

Getting organized for MLA, AHA, AEA or various other academic meetings? Eszter Hargittai has some ideas about managing the travel time efficiently.