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To Reform Admissions, End Obsession With Prestige
It's time to focus on the root cause of the scandal, writes W. Kent Barnds.
Digital Divides
Scott McLemee reviews two books about our networked society that raise rather dystopian concerns.
The Admission Cheating Scam: What’s Next?
We should trade outrage and disgust for promise and opportunity, argues Rick Dalton.
Creating a Legacy of Fairness in Admissions
Low-income students face many more obstacles to earning a college degree than affluent ones. Preferences for alumni children shouldn’t be among them, argues Peter McPherson.
Breaking Out of the Shadow College
Strengthening connections between credit and noncredit work-force programs at community colleges would be beneficial for students, writes Jim Jacobs.
Academic BDS and the Calculus of Hypocrisy
The people who support academic boycott, divestment and sanctions are demanding academic freedom for themselves and their fellow boycotters but denying it to their students, argues Tammi Rossman-Benjamin.
What’s Missing in the Admissions Madness Discussion?
Certain ways of framing and covering the scandal are misleading and only reinforce exaggerated or inaccurate views of higher education, argues Margaret Dunning.
Remaking Higher Ed From Within
As learners and employers seek education and training that is cheaper, faster and better, forward-looking colleges and universities are embracing new roles as curators, certifiers and integrators, Kathleen deLaski and Rufus Glasper write.