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Guiding Students Through Admissions Essays

Charlotte West offers advice for college counselors on the guidance they should provide applicants.
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Watergate, Rebooted

Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide, by Cass R. Sunstein, is not an attempt to rally the public to any particular cause but rather a tribute to the Founding Fathers’ wisdom, writes Scott McLemee.
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Celebrating 'Builders' and 'Burners' in Student Activism

It is wrong to narrowly reward and uplift student activism that makes the administration most comfortable, argues Christopher Purcell.
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Free Speech and Quality Speech

Is there a different way of thinking, Judith Shapiro asks, about significant speech events on campuses?
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For State Universities, Big Is In

Responding to declining high school enrollments and state higher education austerity, some public universities are scaling up online.
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Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland

Having a theory of how people learn would allow teachers to plan pedagogy more effectively and examine all factors relevant to learning, argue Stephen L. Chew and William J. Cerbin.
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The Other Student Debt Crisis

There’s a pernicious college finance problem you haven’t heard of, David Scobey warns: the nonpayment of institutional fees and charges that blocks many thousands of students from graduating or re-enrolling.
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Ethical College Admissions: Of Presidents and Principals

A colleague’s job move has Jim Jump reflecting on challenges faced by those in admissions whose bosses don’t understand the field.