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Networks and the STEM Gender Gap
Colleges and universities can't leave it to chance -- they must deliberately change a culture that often encourages female researchers to become isolated in their jobs, write Santa Ono and Valerie Gray Hardcastle.
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Work Ready or Not
Peter Stokes explores the mismatch in information and results between colleges and the employment market.
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Time for a Sports Degree
Musicians study music. Many artists study art. John Lombardi asks: Shouldn't college athletes have access to a sports performance degree?
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A Family's College Search(es)
As he guides his daughter through her hunt for the right college, Thomas J. Botzman conducts his own quest -- for a campus presidency.
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The Shattered Worldview
A philosopher's memoir of rape and recovery is painful and enlightening. Scott McLemee reports.
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3 Cheers for Associate Degrees
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg writes that it's time to stop treating those who don't finish at a four-year college as failures.
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Presidents in Denial
How is it possible that the leaders of American colleges and universities think that their institutions are doing well on race relations? asks Marybeth Gasman.
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Tenure as Citizenship
In the current system, tenured professors essentially report to no one, adjuncts are like migrant workers, and administrators have little actual power, Josh Wymore argues.