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What to Say When People Question the Cost of Higher Education

Higher education is being eaten alive by external forces. Everyone needs to employ a rhetoric that combats misinformation. We need to take back the sector on behalf of students and the public good. There is no free lunch.

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6 Ways Advancement and Marcomm Can Work Better Together

Building a strategic partnership between these two departments can benefit the work of both teams and yield better results for the institution.

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Quanta’s Thomas Lin Trusts the Public Can Handle Complex Ideas

The founding editor built a math and science magazine that high schoolers and Nobel laureates alike read. Now, he’s turned to books.

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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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Reading the Rules for Rule Makers, Part 1

Conflating academic freedom with perceived viewpoint diversity: such a fundamental category error as to imply bad faith.

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(Some) Starter Questions for Measuring Learning

Let’s do it, if we’re going to do it.

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Mattering in a System That Doesn’t Always Make You Feel That Way

Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose, answers questions about what it means to matter and how to build it into the way we lead students, teams and ourselves.