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Internships as a High-Impact Practice?
Colleges and universities should proceed with caution before they encourage or even require students to have them, argues Matthew T. Hora.
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Another Round of Chaos in College Admissions
The Justice Department doesn't know what it's doing to American colleges, write Robert Massa.
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Ethical College Admissions: Declaration of Independents
Issues of money need attention in the admissions world, writes Jim Jump.
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Primary Sources
Scott McLemee takes a sneak peek at some upcoming university press titles that are pertinent to the 2020 presidential contest.
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Escaping the Trap of Self-Righteousness
Sincere dialogue offers the chance to learn something not only about other people but about ourselves as well, write Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro.
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Questioning the Textbook Rep Culture
Publishers’ sales teams can freely visit professors on many campuses. Steven J. Bell asks, shouldn't academic librarians promoting alternatives have easy access to the faculty, too?
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The Silence Is Deafening
Institutional priorities shouldn't supersede the needs of students and their trust in their faculty members and universities, argues Kendrick Davis, in the wake of questionable behavior by a former University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor.
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Claiming the Front Porch
Rather than focusing on intercollegiate athletics, higher education should use the analogy to frame a conversation about academic outreach and extension, argues Daniel J. Ennis.