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Earning a Degree to Go to Camp

Coding boot camps act as an auxiliary to a college education, not as an alternative, and they use advertising and intensive admissions processes to find students who succeed, write Quinn Burke, Louise Ann Lyon and James Bowring.
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Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World

We in higher education do a poor job helping students translate the specific content or knowledge gained in our classrooms into a tool that will help them thrive in life, writes Cathy N. Davidson.
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Ethical College Admissions: Fighting for Honesty in Statistics

Sometimes you have to make the same point over and over again, writes Jim Jump.
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Between Division III Athletes and Professors

Evan Tucker, a former college football player, and Michael Nelson, a faculty member, spell out what athletes wish professors knew and vice versa.
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The Disappearing Jew

While not as crude as those on display in Charlottesville, various forms of anti-Jewish sentiment are steadily becoming part of our culture, even and especially in higher education, argues Helene Meyers.
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Some Good People

What stands out in Linda Gordon’s The Second Coming of the KKK is that the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s tried to create a world unto itself through spectacle, mass communications and branding, writes Scott McLemee.
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Time to Change the Narrative of Online Education

Christopher Haynes says the story of online learning has often been about disruption, suspicion and distance, but the reality is passion, experimentation and exploration.
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The Mind-Set List, Faculty Edition

Robert Scherrer provides a guide to the college years of a typical 50-something professor.