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A Conference Manifesto for the Rest of Us
Responding to a recent critique, three humanists argue that academic meetings, done right, can spur collaboration and add value for participants, for the humanities, and for higher education and beyond.
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Education's Moment of Truth
The increasing availability of data about the learning process can help professors better understand how they can help students, Fred Singer writes.
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Being Gladwelled
Jessica Wells Cantiello wonders if she should encourage students to write in the compelling, but manipulating, style of a certain New Yorker writer.
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Frye Revived
The pre-eminent literary theorist of the 1960s and '70s went out fashion -- yet never really went away. Scott McLemee looks into the afterlife of an original.
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The Real Change Agents
To reform community colleges, you need to reach below the presidential level, writes James Jacobs.
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Fight Global Poverty
Current and former college presidents have a duty, writes Nannerl O. Keohane.
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Commencement Day
Matthew McConaughey? Seriously? Wouldn't the money be better spent on learning how to travel in time, as in Interstellar? Rob Zaretsky wonders.