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A Complete Education
Joseph E. Aoun writes that it's time to stop trying to divide the curriculum into the liberal arts and practical training.
Regulating Job Placement
Education Department turns up heat on for-profits with job-placement-rate scrutiny, three months before gainful-employment rules kick in. But lack of federal standards for placement rates causes confusion.
Professor Manager
Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research.
Fight for 15K
Adjuncts across the country participate in a national day of action for a living wage. How do their interests align with low-wage workers from outside academe?
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Re: Your Recent Email to Your Professor
Students who use emojis in their emails and write “heeeeelp!” in the subject line don't necessarily know better. Paul Corrigan and Cameron Hunt McNabb present a way for professors to help such students.
Too Rude for Tenure?
U of North Georgia professor whom the university intended to fire for a pattern of rude behavior has agreed to retire. Her colleagues continue to debate whether university did the right thing or hurt tenure.
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The Professor's Literature of Protest
Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America is back in a new edition. Scott McLemee revisits a scathing classic.
Extending the Credential
"Extending the Credential " is a print-on-demand compilation of articles that explores such topics as competency-based education, internships, the role...