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Coming to campus to teach online
Just because professors who teach online don't have to be physically on campus doesn't mean they shouldn't be, writes Penelope Adams Moon.
Want to Enhance Humanities Career Outcomes? Engage the Faculty
The job of preparing students for the workplace can’t be left to career services offices alone. Professors are key, Emily J. Levine and Nicole Hall argue.
Ethical College Admissions: Depending on the Kindness of Strangers
Jim Jump is not impressed with the way the College Board is treating teachers who are proctors.
Dampening Innovation, One Institution at a Time
The recommended penalties placed on Western Governors University will have a dampening effect on any institution that is pursuing new or modified learning models, argues Justin Draeger.
We Can No Longer Ignore the Slump
Colleges and universities must build on first-year programs to help sophomore students define the questions that will guide their academic journeys, write Sarah Barber and Robert Thacker.
The Failure of Higher Education Leadership
Unfortunately, presidents have not spoken out or engaged in the debates about essentially all the key issues confronting colleges and universities today, argues Philip G. Altbach.
How To Pitch Journalists More Successfully
Alex Kingsbury and Michael J. Socolow outline six things academics can do to get on the same page with editors.
Freud's Furniture
Nathan Kravis’s On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch From Plato to Freud examines why that piece of furniture ever entered the analytic tradition and how its efficacy and centrality have now come under scrutiny, writes Scott McLemee.