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Informing Students About Islam
In a combustible atmosphere such as today's, college leaders should do all they can to make sure students understand religious diversity, write Eboo Patel and Mary Ellen Giess.
Wheelchair Citizenship
There's more to the American past than able-bodied pioneers. Scott McLemee reads A Disability History of the United States.
'My Vote Doesn't Matter'
Colleges can help students surmount political cynicism, write Paul Loeb, Alexander Astin and Parker J. Palmer.
A Call to Serve
The tragedy in Libya illustrates why American students need to be inspired to study the region and to serve their country with their knowledge, writes James I. Gadsden.
Preserve Real Application Essays
If colleges don't want glib, packaged answers, they should stop asking easy questions, writes Peter Laipson.
A Sense of Entitlement
Given that they aren't paid like Wall Streeters, college professors and administrators care deeply about their titles -- which makes them prime fodder for Mark Drozdowski.
Marx and Breast-Feeding
David Vine sees many lessons from an unlikely source to make sense of the recent controversy at American University.
Agenda for Research Universities
The world's leading science institutions should consider a model at the Technion to change their relationship to elementary and secondary schools, writes Orit Hazzan.