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‘Vice’ Precedents
Mark Stein’s Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs and Bowling From the Pilgrims to the Present tracks how the vice of one century, such as bowling or playing cards, can become the wholesome family recreation of another, writes Scott McLemee.
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There’s No Success Like Failure
Robert Ubell reports how massive open online courses are testing personalizing online learning through positive feedback to mistakes.
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Teaching With Emerging Technologies
Michelle Pacansky-Brock says digital learning is reshaping the higher ed landscape, and suggests five things instructors need to succeed.
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The Art of the Rebuke
Thomas Doherty wonders if today’s atmosphere on college campuses encourages, or even tolerates, the kind of unsparing reprimand from a professor that might be needed for a student’s growth.
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From Unruly Hearts to Open Minds
Michael S. Roth examines campus intellectual diversity in the age of polarization.
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Ethical College Admissions: Tinker, Tailor, College Counselor
Jim Jump considers roles that counselors shouldn’t play, and lines they shouldn’t cross.
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Principles for Admissions in an Era of Financial Pressure
Alex Posecznick offers some guidelines.
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Whose Speech Is Free? And at What Social Cost?
Some “free speech” proponents only support perspectives that have advantaged them -- at the expense of social progress, argues Christina Berchini.