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Willful and for Itself, as Such

Scott McLemee reviews Willful: How We Choose What We Do by Richard Robb.
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Prison: Where Undergrads and Inmates Take Classes Together

We can simultaneously improve students' learning experiences and enhance prisoners' opportunities, writes Jeff Schatten.
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College Ranking Metrics Should Include Academic Freedom

Isn’t academic freedom a serious enough principle, Richard Ashford, Shampa Biswas and Mohan J. Dutta ask, for its violations to be reflected in some manner in those metrics?
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Don't Play Politics With Student Veterans

A nonpartisan study is needed before the federal government makes any sweeping policy changes that would affect student veterans' benefits, writes Daniel Elkins.
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Is It Time to Dezone Knowledge?

To halt the crisis in the humanities, Clifford Siskin and William Warner write, we must rethink our classification system.
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A Question of Character

Robert Massa explains a new attempt to define character in the admissions process.
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Ethical College Admissions: A New Challenge to Testing

Jim Jump considers the implications of a threatened lawsuit against the University of California using the SAT and ACT.
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Think Positive

Scott McLemee reviews Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding by Bobby Duffy.