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The Liberal Arts at War

The values that undergird higher education as a guarantor of human dignity and enlightenment are under a special intensity of attack, argues Robert Weisbuch, while we in academe seem preoccupied with the little stuff.
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19 More Lessons About Teaching

Andrew Pegoda highlights the importance of blogs, being rested and sticking to your beliefs, along with other advice for being effective in the classroom.

Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher

The most common grade is A -- at all kinds of colleges. But while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that's not the case at community colleges.
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Off the Mat and Into the World

What does yoga have to do with teaching in a college classroom? A lot, writes Karen Costa.
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Learning From a Typewriter?

An old-fashioned physical object can create a surprisingly meaningful pedagogical moment in a classroom, writes Jared Berezin.

The Shrinking Humanities Major

Number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds.

Rethinking Gen Ed

Amid concerns that requirements may not mean much to students or professors, Harvard and Duke Universities both look to curricular changes to improve undergraduate education.
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The Economy of Cheating

Colleges and universities may try to address academic cheating as a moral or pedagogical problem, but it's really about something entirely different, argues Carol Poster.