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Why Not Baseball?
In baseball, a .300 batting average is good. In setting targets for community college completion, as Wick Sloane argues we should, how about that as a goal?
Opinion
Connecting With Prospective Students
How do you turn potential applicants into engaged and successful students on your campus? Catherine Sloan offers some guidance.
The Mind's Ear
Nietzsche, Sartre, and Roland Barthes kept regular daily appointments with the piano. Scott McLemee listens in.
Dual Career Challenges
Sue V. Rosser considers the particular issues facing women in science.
Grandiosity Run Amok
Lawrence Lokman examined imaging slogans being used in higher education, and he's not impressed with the results.
Diversity’s Evidences
Len Niehoff worked on the legal team that saved affirmative action during the last Supreme Court review of the practice. As a law school teacher, he writes that he finds the arguments even more compelling.
Faculty Fashion
Daniel J. Myers thinks it's time for professors to care a little more about their sartorial style.
Higher Education as a Business
Education is one of the few enterprises that guarantee a positive return -- and as such, argues Mehdi Maghsoodnia, should be the top priority for government spending.