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New Push for a Shift in Promotion and Tenure
Should innovation and entrepreneurial achievement be considered as part of teaching, research and service?
Opinion
Needed: A New Rehearsal Space for Democracy
General education represents the best and last chance for students to debate broad human problems, yet far too few institutions are giving them the opportunity, argue Andrew Delbanco and Jon Parrish Peede.
Opinion
Meeting the Instructional Challenge of Distance Education
Alexander Astin outlines some specific pedagogical practices that might enhance student involvement online and warns against a course content approach.
Standing Up for Professors
Washington and Lee offers full-throated defense of professors targeted for political and racist reasons.
Opinion
Graduate Professionalization in the Age of Student Debt
The often unmanageable debt many Ph.D.s accrue necessitates a candid discussion of grad students' finances, training and potential career paths within and outside academe, writes Jennifer Torkelson.
New Programs: Ethnic and Race Studies, Actuarial Science, Marketing, Music Technology, Global Affairs and Business
California Lutheran University is starting a major in ethnic and race studies. East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is starting an...
Zoom Draws a Line
Videoconferencing provider refuses to stream a university event featuring a member of a terrorist organization. Academic freedom hawks see virtual teaching platforms as a new front in the fight for faculty rights.
Tenure Awarded… at Briar Cliff, Oregon State
Briar Cliff University David Hoferer, biology/environmental science Daniel Jung, biology Oregon State University Sergio Arispe, animal and rangeland sciences Harold...