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Furlough Realities
It's time to be honest about pay cuts and their consequences, writes Shaun Johnson.
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The Real Cost Equation
To understand rising tuition rates, focus less on colleges and more on broad economic trends, write Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman.
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Perils of Presidential Parallels
Robert Schmuhl writes about how he tries to engage the public with nonpartisan analysis based on scholarship -- and manages to offend all sides.
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Re-sorting Responsibilities
The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
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The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
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Late-Breaking Developments...
The C.L.R. James Library stands fast -- and Amazon launches the digital pamphlet. Scott McLemee reports.
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Campus Talk: 'What It Is'?
The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between...
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Antioch's Choice
Antioch College, emerging from the ashes of its involuntary auto de fé, plans to appoint a new president shortly and...