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The Carnegie Unit: Articulate and Expressive

There is no national emergency, writes Bernard Fryshman: Higher education's longstanding method of defining academic credit remains valid today.
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Reconsider the Credit Hour

Higher education leaders should work together to find an alternative to the Carnegie Unit for measuring academic credit -- unless they want the government to impose one, writes Steven D. Crow.
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Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work

Even old news can be dismal, and that is the case at hand. For about 40 years, by my calculation...
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Meatball Surgery of the Mind

The psychiatric emergency room is where people have the worst day of their lives. Scott McLemee recommends a gripping memoir.
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Janus Generation

Are students lazy, technologically sophisticated or both? Jerry Pattengale evaluates the evidence.
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Accreditation 2.0

With the system of higher education self-regulation under intense scrutiny, Judith Eaton envisions what its next iteration might look like.
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Choosing Sides

By urging mandated bachelor’s degrees for nurses, Carnegie Foundation’s important new report risks polarizing nursing education community, writes Beverly Malone.
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Love and Death in Indiana

A black, gay professor is murdered in cold blood in Bloomington. Scott McLemee looks into a hate crime.