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An Absurd Record

A high school student thinks he broke the record for being admitted to colleges. He and his school should ask whether it was worth it.

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What Goes Up When Art Comes Down?

An artist residency program can offer a model for colleges with bare walls and empty pedestals following the removal of divisive art, Michael Patullo writes.

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Myths of American Innocence

Sentimentality in middle-class American culture.

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Annotating the Syllabus

A painless and useful form of outcomes assessment.

The cover of Unwired by Gaia Bernstein
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Getting ‘Unwired’

Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.

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The Untapped Talents of Senior Diversity Officers

Kimberly A. Truong and Clyde Wilson Pickett describe how such officers can help colleges and search firms identify and retain the leaders that campuses need to succeed.

The cover of Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby, showing Prince's iconic purple symbol guitar with a black top hat
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Academic Career Advice From ‘Dickens and Prince’

The particular genius of good enough.

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Not Psychohistory. Not the History of Psychology, but Historical Psychology

What if we studied human psychology through a historical lens?