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Technology Can Help Save the Liberal Arts
Rather than threaten the humanities and other non-vocational fields, innovations in delivering education can strengthen them and ensure that more people have access to them, writes Gunnar Counselman.
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The Age(ism) of Diversity
It's time for colleges to admit that they don't seriously consider older applicants for faculty jobs -- and then to start hiring talented academics older than 40, writes Robert J. McKee.
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Reading Disruption
The day of world domination by the ebook is at hand! Well, maybe. Scott McLemee checks out a more sober assessment.
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Becoming a Freshman, Again
Julie Wollman, a university president, shares what she learned about teaching and learning by taking a course -- in an unfamiliar subject -- with undergraduates.
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No Apologies
It's time for students who leave MOOCs and the professors who teach them to stop apologizing, writes Jeffrey Pomerantz.
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Fighting the Twitter Police
The way the U. of Illinois blocked Steven Salaita from taking a position there is a clear violation of academic freedom, writes John K. Wilson.
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An Appointment to Reject
Cary Nelson writes that the chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did the right thing in blocking a faculty appointment for Steven Salaita.
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Save the Humanities / Keep Business Schools
Those committed to the humanities won't advance their cause by attacking other parts of higher education, writes Sylvia Maxfield.