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Expand Economic Opportunity by Supporting Community Colleges
They're often the most affordable option for higher education -- if not the only option -- yet public funding for them compared to other colleges is clearly imbalanced, write Austan Goolsbee, Glenn Hubbard and Penny Pritzker.
The Repetition Compulsion
Scott McLemee explores various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism.
Same-Sex Abuse Should Not Be Invisible
But it is, even in the Me Too era, argues Robert Oscar Lopez.
Land Acknowledgments Accomplish Little
If you actually want to help people, then ask others to do something, writes Alex Small.
The Candidates' Higher Ed Bidding Wars
Any proposal to spend federal dollars on higher education should concentrate on those who actually need the help, for otherwise it is money wasted, argues David Kirp.
The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure
The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies, write James W. Weis, Amy Brand and Joi Ito.
A Not-So-Tidy Narrative
Students aren’t going to college just to get a job -- and that matters, write Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta.