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Disruptive Innovation: Rhetoric or Reality?

At Virginia and elsewhere, would-be reformers cite technology as forcing higher education to change. But that's often an excuse for politically motivated decisions, writes Johann Neem.
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Defending the Humanities

The disciplines are needed more than ever and besieged more than ever, writes Peter Burian, who considers the ways scholars can respond.
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The Declaration of Independence

Kieran Healy imagines the documents the UVa Board of Visitors intended to issue.
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Transparency, or Redundancy?

The Obama administration’s push to standardize financial aid packets will do little to address college affordability, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein.
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Whose Intellectual Property?

Many universities' IP policies at one time respected faculty rights, and need to return to that approach, writes Cary Nelson.
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The Sporting Life

A new book denounces competitive athletics as "a global plague." Scott McLemee pulls no punches.
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When University Presses Fail

Closures speak volumes about a university's priorities and about academe's priorities, writes Jeffrey R. Di Leo.
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Knee-Jerk Reforms on Remediation

The conclusion that remedial education has failed is based on flawed interpretations of data and unsupported assertions, write Hunter R. Boylan and Alexandros Goudas.