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Bad Idea About Writing: Anybody Can Teach It
The system at too many colleges is stuck in a cycle of insisting that some work is lower value than other work, then using the fact that it abuses the people who do that work as proof of its low value, argues Seth Kahn.
Ethical College Admissions: Overbooking and Lessons From Irvine
Jim Jump says there are legitimate reasons to withdraw an acceptance, but he's not sure the university had them for most of those briefly told they couldn't enroll.
Affirmative Action: Now More Than Ever
Michael S. Roth discusses why we must resist efforts to restrict affirmative action.
The President as Mentor for Tackling Hard Questions
The time is right for a more courageous approach to difficult conversations, writes Ronald A. Crutcher, who meets regularly with students to discuss controversial issues across lines of difference.
‘Digital Prospects’
Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.
Online Courses as Good as In-Person Classes
Fred Lokken disagrees with a recent “Views” contributor who wrote that online education isn’t working -- and provides data to prove his points.
Maximizing Mobility
Leveraging new data can help low-income students climb the economic ladder, writes Michael Lawrence Collins.
Texting to New Perspectives
Beyond offering opportunities to communicate quickly with family, friends and even teachers, texting also provides some intellectual benefits, argue Missy Watson and Madhuri Karak.