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We Can No Longer Ignore the Slump
Colleges and universities must build on first-year programs to help sophomore students define the questions that will guide their academic journeys, write Sarah Barber and Robert Thacker.
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The Failure of Higher Education Leadership
Unfortunately, presidents have not spoken out or engaged in the debates about essentially all the key issues confronting colleges and universities today, argues Philip G. Altbach.
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How To Pitch Journalists More Successfully
Alex Kingsbury and Michael J. Socolow outline six things academics can do to get on the same page with editors.
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Freud's Furniture
Nathan Kravis’s On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch From Plato to Freud examines why that piece of furniture ever entered the analytic tradition and how its efficacy and centrality have now come under scrutiny, writes Scott McLemee.
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Why Academics Need a Digital Persona
Laura Pasquini writes it is becoming increasingly vital for scholars to share their practices online and develop a digital presence to support their work.
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Tuition Discounting: The Problem, not the Remedy
It’s an addiction, argues Frank H. Wu, and presidents, backed by boards, have to wean themselves off this drug.
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The Equity-Minded Civic Learning All Americans Need
The most constructive response to Charlottesville would be for educators to make such learning central, writes Carol Geary Schneider.
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NACAC's New Approach to Ethics
Jim Jump offers an inside look at the way the association changed its rules.