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Why Faculty Advising Matters

Students like Nayla Kidd at Columbia University might not disappear from college if they had the opportunity to have meaningful relationships with faculty advisers, argues Claire Potter.

The Value of Our Daughters

The Stanford University sexual assault case raises crucial issues about gender, class and race, writes Marybeth Gasman.

Pretty Poison

Scott McLemee reviews a new book that examines the long literary and political history of a femme fatale that embodies two aspects of Eden: the beguiling female and the deceiving reptile, merged, literally, into one.

Liberal Arts to the Rescue?

A new play suggests a surprising traditional route out of poverty, writes Sanford J. Ungar.

Higher Ed's Biggest Gamble

Whether we can actually teach students critical-thinking skills is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood issues in higher education today, argues John Schlueter.

This Picture Tells a Story

Those of us working in the humanities must accept that our golden age lasted just one generation, argues Leonard Cassuto, and was not the norm.

The Ordinary Instant

A shooting at a college can damage one's sense of identity, assumptions about safety and beliefs about the holiness of education, writes Megan Doney.

13 Ways of Looking at the Humanities

U of All People's David Galef pens a poem on the humanities.