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A New Set of Lenses for Looking at Colleges
With new Carnegie Classifications about to be released, Alexander C. McCormick explains how they have evolved and what they mean -- and don't mean.
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Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget
It's the size of the subsidy, not the athletics program's total cost, that really matters, John V. Lombardi argues.
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Democracy at Risk
A new book by political scientists diagnoses a crisis in our civic life. Scott McLemee wonders if they have any good remedies.
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Whereabouts Not Known
Scott McLemee revisits the influential but elusive theorist Henri Mensonge, international man of mystery.
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Outdated and Outdone
Shari Wilson explores the world of handouts that shouldn't still be handed out -- and the professors who hand them out.
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Tripping Up on the Paperwork
A federal appeals court misinterpreted the Higher Education Act -- and colleges could rue the mistake, Mark L. Pelesh argues.