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Part 2: Is Higher Education Having a Psychotic Breakdown?

Part two exposing the tension between higher education as a business and as a service and how this conflict has created the sector’s current identity crisis.

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Gas Prices and Commuter Schools

If prices stay this high or go higher by fall, we may see even greater shifts to online classes.

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When the Homie Comes to Campus: Connections to the HBO Series ‘Half Man’

Friendsickness can complicate students’ first-year transitions. Maintaining relationships with friends and family members around the same age is a necessary and useful mediator.

Opinion

Higher Education Was Built on Scarcity. That Model Is Breaking.

By tying value to selectivity, colleges created a system that limits access, inflates cost and undermines its own credibility.
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Why I Signed With the Literary Agent Who Didn’t Want My Book

Working with an agent who challenges your vision for your manuscript could push you to think more deeply and ultimately write a better book.

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Online Classes and Conflicting Desires

Whether students vote with a ballot or with their feet, the outcome of the vote sometimes has unintended consequences.

Cover of The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook by David M. Perry
Opinion

Becoming a Public Scholar

An interview with David M. Perry, author of a new handbook to help academics write for the public.