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Eliminating Early Decision Is Not the Answer

Ending ED isn’t the way to improve access, Robert Massa and Bill Conley write.

By Robert Massa and Bill Conley

The book cover for Tobias Becker’s "Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia" features a pastel-like cloudy sky blending into a sandy ocean beach.
Opinion
Views Intellectual Affairs

Good Old Nostalgia

Scott McLemee reviews Tobias Becker’s Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia.

By Scott McLemee

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Opinion
Career Advice Teaching

Staged Assignments & Long-Ass Prompts

After years of trying to convince students it was in their best interest to start their research papers early, Zachary Nowak simply required them to.

By Zachary Nowak

Opinion
Columns Learning Innovation

3 Questions for Ph.D. Student Brittany Washington

A conversation with the author of a paper on contingent faculty.

By Joshua Kim

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Opinion
Career Advice

10 Survival Tips for New Professors

Benjamin Pacini offers advice that can help you make your life as an instructor a little easier and, more important, benefit your students.

By Benjamin Pacini

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Unextreme Vetting

Judith Wilde and James Finkelstein are skeptical search firms will step up their diligence to root out research misconduct.

By Judith Wilde and James Finkelstein

Opinion
Columns Higher Ed Gamma

Reckoning With the Problem of Collective Evil

How to teach about historical injustices.

By Steven Mintz