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Pricing the Product
In recent weeks we’ve seen flurries of enthusiasm about various interrelated topics, all about money. We hear of the concern...
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Finding the Best: The College Football Championship in America
This is the time of endless speculation about which division I-A college football team is the best in America. We...
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Deconstructing Faculty Work
Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...
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Watch Lists
OK, I’m following the conversation in Washington about putting universities and colleges on a watch list if they increase their...
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Testing What?
Testing enthusiasm continues to grow among friends and critics of higher education. My own enthusiasm for the endless standardized testing...
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Taxing the Sports Factory
Since at least the early 20th century, it has been fashionable to attack college athletics as distorting the priorities of...
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The Academic Success Entitlement
At one time, we imagined that students came to the university to learn, that they had an obligation to engage...
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Ranking the rankings
It is rankings time again, as everyone interested in colleges and universities know. This annual celebration gives everyone something. It...