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What’s So Bad About Marketing?
The need to sell higher education and the liberal arts is real, and there should be no shame in that, argue Leonard Cassuto and Robin L. Cautin.
Rankings Must Reconsider Alumni Giving Rates
The metric used in the U.S. News rankings is deeply flawed and can encourage a profoundly limited view of the positive impact of alumni relations, argues Sue Cunningham.
Ethical College Admissions: The Cult of Selectivity
Jim Jump hopes that Stanford's recent announcement that it won't boast about admissions statistics leads to reflection at other colleges about the quest for more and more applicants.
Distant Early Warning
Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee.
The Ronell Case and the Catholic Church
Defenders of Avital Ronell should look to the uncovering of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, argues Kathryn Meredith Doyle.
Democratizing the American University
When it comes to cases like that of Avita Ronell, American universities can learn a lot from British ones, argues Rebecca Gould.
Leaving So Soon?
Why are growing numbers of presidential tenures short-lived, asks Clara M. Lovett, and what can we learn from them?