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Ethical College Admissions: Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans, Again
Jim Jump writes that the real issue may be the rapid increase in the number of applicants, not overt discrimination.
Opinion
Toward a Culture of Self-Care
If greater numbers of institutions implement such programs, they will be better able to promote student success, to produce higher levels of research and to serve as exemplary educational models, write Shari Tarver Behring, Carolyn Jeffries and Michael Spagna.
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One Way College Leaders Can Truly Stand With Charlottesville
It’s one thing for unwelcome racists to invade our campuses, quite another to have dead racists honored on them, argues Leidy Klotz.
Opinion
When Activism Came to My Hometown
Monuments to racism, hate and prejudice must be removed, writes Larry Moneta, but only through legitimate, law-abiding processes.
Opinion
Klan 2.0
In The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Linda Gordon emphasizes broad patterns, making the book more timely than even the headlines of the past few days would suggest, writes Scott McLemee.
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Using Digital Storytelling to Transform Learning
Three University of Minnesota staff members write that by employing multimedia and expert sources, students consider issues from multiple viewpoints and better analyze problems and potential solutions.
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OER Disrupting Textbook Marketplace
Denise Wydra says New York state’s pursuit of free and inexpensive course materials is changing the traditional textbook landscape in fundamental ways.
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The Attack on Affirmative Action Is Simple and Powerful -- and Wrong
When a simple idea clashes with one that is complicated and nuanced, often the truth loses out, argue Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson.