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Time for a New Strategy
The erosion of faculty rights in Wisconsin shows that focusing on professors or academe alone won't work, and that it's time to talk about all employees and employers, writes Christopher Newfield.
Who Crossed the Line?
First Republicans, and then faculty leaders, have questioned tweets of Wisconsin's Sara Goldrick-Rab, particularly in seemingly discouraging admitted students from enrolling. Her supporters call her courageous and say her defense of academic freedom has made her a target.
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Grow Your Own Plants
In an era in which real dialogue is largely displaced by enclaves of the like-minded, colleges should focus on giving students effective ways to listen, think, converse and cooperate, Ryan Hays argues.
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Caricature of Campus Activism
Pundits overwhelming portray student activists as oversensitive whiners. Don't buy the hype, Michelle Minter argues: they are raising real issues on campuses.
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Sense and Sensibility
Historians are recovering the sounds, smells and other sensory details of the past. Scott McLemee checks the record.
Summer Unemployment Reality
Adjuncts at one California college recently won a contract provision that they believe will help them receive benefits during months they don't have teaching positions.
For-Profit Group and Big Chains Part Ways
Big changes for APSCU, the for-profit trade group, which has lost most of its large-chain members and plans to focus again on career education.