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Leveling the Playing Field for Independent Bookstores
Association of nonleased campus stores unveils network designed to reduce their dependence on textbook profits and let colleges retain revenues many now pay to companies to operate the stores.
'College in Prison'
New book tells the story of initiative that brings liberal arts education to incarcerated men and women.
Hidden Figures
Women's studies meets mathematics in a new book arguing for a more inclusive cultural notion of numeracy.
Opinion
'The Death of Expertise'
Tom Nichols devotes most of The Death of Expertise to identifying how 21st-century American life blurs the line between fact and opinion, writes Scott McLemee.
Opinion
Writing an Effective Abstract: An Audience-Based Approach
A bad abstract won’t by itself cause journal editors to reject a scholarly article, but it does incline them toward an initial negative answer, write Faye Halpern and James Phelan.
'Lower Ed'
A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges.
Opinion
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Abraham Flexner's The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge highlights how the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake has shown itself to be a powerful force in the world, writes Scott McLemee.
'Unwinding Madness'
A new book argues that the NCAA "has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics" and that the association is incapable of achieving reform.