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Teach Your Students to Be Builders, Not Critics
Eboo Patel calls on college educators to teach students how to build a better social order, not merely criticize the existing one.
Why Did Allegheny Cut Its Chinese Program?
With little other information, the program’s lone tenured—now terminated—professor wonders if it’s about anti-Asian bias.
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Espionage! (Not)
Scott McLemee reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.
Completion Boost for 2-Year Students Who Take (Some) Online Courses
Black, Hispanic and low-income community college students who take up to half their courses online increase their odds of completing degrees, a working paper finds. Fully online learners are less likely to earn a credential.
New Programs: Data Science, Dental Therapy, Computer Engineering
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University are starting a major in data science. Skagit Valley College, in partnership...
History Hiring in the Pandemic
New report from the American Historical Association shows that job ads, a proxy for faculty hiring, declined dramatically in 2020–21 but have started to rebound. The long-term outlook remains sobering.
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Are We Doing It Wrong?
How, in a polarized nation, Steph Liberatore asks, should we be teaching argument in the academy? Should we be focusing less on persuasion and more on understanding?
The Case for Gender-Diverse Research Teams
Study finds that male-female research teams produce more innovative, impactful research than all-male or all-female teams, and the more gender-balanced the diverse teams are, the better.