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Opinion
Future-Focused Assessment
Measuring what students have learned and can do is hard enough, but we really should be trying to assess what our institutions have prepared them to learn later, writes Mark Salisbury.
Opinion
Crisis and Critique
In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman challenges one of the inescapable concepts of modern life. Scott McLemee risks an opinion.
Taboo Subject?
A black female professor says she has been repeatedly investigated by her college for talking about race in ways that offended some white students.
Opinion
The Courage to Be Ignorant
Adam Kotsko considers the advantages of having professors teach in areas other than their expertise.
Star Power
Study suggests that, in science, influence of top departments (while strong) may be shrinking while role of top researchers may be increasing.
How to Say No to Students
McGill professor -- petitioned by students to extend a paper deadline -- makes them laugh while turning them down.
Giving 'Voice to Faculty'
Cathy Trower, closing out 16 years leading a research effort of academic work, shares thoughts on tenure, retirement age, adjunct conditions and more.
Employed But ...
While plenty of history Ph.D. recipients land jobs on tenure track, study documents long-term adjunct work -- and finds that field's most popular specialty is least likely to lead to tenure-track job.