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Columns Small World

Do Faculty Refuse to Recognize Financial Challenges?

Gordon asks Rachel to explain a baffling mindset. She fails.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

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Columns Just Explain It to Me!

Assigning Jung’s Archetypes to University Trustee Profiles

Knowing trustee archetypes may help you communicate more effectively.

By Kathy Johnson Bowles

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Columns Learning Innovation

‘Stealing Rembrandts’ and College Museum Art Thefts

A book-inspired list of university-affiliated art heists since 1984.

By Joshua Kim

Opinion

Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

A Dispatch From the Sandwich Generation

Transitions, and connections between the generations.

By Matt Reed

Opinion

Columns Editor’s Note

How to Instill a Love of Learning in Students

Showing students how to be curious is a hard-to-quantify return on investment for a college degree, but one that pays lifelong dividends.

By Sara Custer

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Columns Beyond Transfer

States Need a Road Map for Credit for Prior Learning

How states can scale credit for prior learning.

By Lindsay Daugherty et al.

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Columns Learning Innovation

‘Empire of AI,’ AGI and the University

What if we are having the wrong campus AI conversations?

By Joshua Kim

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Columns Debatable Ideas

‘Gays for Hamas’ and Other Imaginary Signs of the Culture Wars

A reminder that even the smartest people are vulnerable to dumb ideas whenever we start dividing the world into us and them and dismissing our enemies as awful people.

By John K. Wilson