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Apocalypse Later
In the debut of a new column, Peter Stokes, a longtime proponent of higher education innovation, challenges the fascination with "disruption" and urges a focus on improvement and strategy instead.
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Dog Days
Did Bo help get the president re-elected? Scott McLemee looks into the burgeoning literature on canine politics.
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The Widget Theory of Higher Ed
The effectiveness of higher education can't be evaluated as one would examine a factory, writes Peter T. Flawn.
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Why Students Gripe About Grades
Professors can change attitudes, but only by thinking about educational values, and not just grading policies, writes Cathy Davidson.
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The Shrinking Humanities
To understand and to defend this crucial part of the scholarly world, academics need to remember its history, writes W. Robert Connor.
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The Year Ahead in IT, 2013
In the new installment of his annual feature, Lev Gonick dissects the technology developments that are likely to change higher ed -- and not -- in the year ahead.
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The Year in Review, in Brief
Carolyn Foster Segal assesses the year just past, and finds that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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The Social Edition
A group of digital humanists foresees a new phase of scholarly e-publishing. Scott McLemee gets a peek into their crystal ball.