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A Playbook for Creating an Institutional Analytics Program
Having a data-informed culture is essential in today's era of financial challenge and accountability. Darren Catalano offers advice on how to get there.
Our Fail Year
If we want our students to take chances, we faculty members hold the levers that would make such risk taking a risk worth taking, writes Kevin Dettmar.
Ethical College Admissions: Context and Shortcuts
Jim Jump sees potential but also flaws in the new adversity index being offered by the College Board.
The New SAT Score: So Many Questions
Dig deeply into the new score and problem after problem comes up, writes Ben Paris.
In the Valley of the Shadow of Galt
Scott McLemee reviews Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan.
The Importance of Cultivating Curiosity
After graduation, students often don't apply this intellectual asset to their careers, even though satisfying job choices are tightly correlated with it, writes Mike O'Connor.
The Untapped Potential of Making and Makerspaces
Charles M. Schweik describes four ways higher education could make much more of such educational opportunities.
The Need for a Recovery of the Humanities
To recover the trust of students and their families, Michael S. Roth writes, we must overcome our cultivated insularity.