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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.
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College Admissions Testing: Even More of an Arms Race

The changes to the ACT will only exacerbate the problems, writes Ben Paris.
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Ethical College Admissions: Applicants’ Remorse

There are many reasons for the affliction, writes Jim Jump.
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The Mathematics of Flourishing

Scott McLemee reviews Francis Su's Mathematics for Human Flourishing.
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How First-Year Comp Can Save the World

What if the best about composition teaching, Deborah L. Williams asks, became the pedagogical default instead of the exception?
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Against Recycling

The concept of self-plagiarism is peculiar and in some ways more interesting than ordinary plagiarism, observes Scott McLemee.
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When Colleges and Universities Stop Making Sense

Higher education institutions and their leaders -- who claim to help graduates develop critical thinking -- are doing too little to combat the growing lack of reason roiling our society, Ryan Craig writes.
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Strange Ed Fellows

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann describes how very different institutions -- for example, a secular, global university and a graduate theological consortium -- can come together to confront climate change and other pressing societal issues.