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Higher Education's Big Lie
The notion that education, particularly a college degree, is the key to career success is a particularly American idea. It...
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The Content and the Buzz
Rumors of Book Expo's demise are greatly exaggerated. Scott McLemee returns from the university press "ghetto."
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Diversity's Next Challenges
In the early 1990s, two social psychologists conducted an experiment to see whether our society’s negative racial stereotypes affect the...
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My Application, AACC President
Wick Sloane thinks he's the right man to lead the American Association of Community Colleges. Here's his platform.
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Speaking Through Verse
William L. Fox on why, as a president, he works poetry into many of his speeches, and why doing so resonates with alumni.
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Beware Higher Ed's 'Mad Men'
In 1981, Grey Poupon took the nation by storm. Although the little-known Dijon mustard had been manufactured for more than...
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Exposed!
University presses are rethinking how they approach the publishing industry's biggest shindig. Scott McLemee reports.
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Open Door to What?
Amy E. Slaton questions the assumptions behind the push for speedy job training at community colleges.