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The Silence Is Deafening
Institutional priorities shouldn't supersede the needs of students and their trust in their faculty members and universities, argues Kendrick Davis, in the wake of questionable behavior by a former University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor.
Claiming the Front Porch
Rather than focusing on intercollegiate athletics, higher education should use the analogy to frame a conversation about academic outreach and extension, argues Daniel J. Ennis.
Ethical College Admissions: The Real Victims
Felicity Huffman and the other parents ignored key facts about the admissions process, writes Jim Jump.
An Open Letter to College-Bound Students and Their Parents
A group of enrollment managers offers advice.
Evaluating the Genuine Fake
Scott McLemee reviews Lydia Pyne's Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff.
We Need to Talk About Authorship Abuse
The academic community must move beyond compliance with standards and toward the cultivation of a greater sense of ethical responsibility, argue A. Susan Jurow and Jordan Jurow.
We Must Save Independent Student Newsrooms
Colleges should provide no-strings-attached support for the perspective that student journalists offer -- even if it is occasionally uncomfortable to read, Diane McFarlin and Frank LoMonte argue.
The Affordable Online Degree Emerges
William Kuskin on what we can learn from the Rolling Stones about the new genre of scaled education.