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How Online Can Learn From the Airline Industry
Global and regional alliances of colleges offering online programs can help higher education institutions navigate the future, Mark Lester writes.
Scholars or Spies?
Foreign agents are targeting research at American academic institutions, write Representatives Lamar Smith and Clay Higgins, and universities must take steps to guard against theft of sensitive information.
The Idea of the University Today
How have institutions like the University of Oxford endured for centuries through so many dramatic changes, asks Reverend John I. Jenkins, and what might their staying power teach us now?
Ethical College Admissions: The Harvard Admissions Case
Jim Jump reviews the latest briefs. He's not convinced of discrimination, but he does have a lot of questions.
Questions Harvard Needs to Answer
Jun-Han Su and Hao Wu write that the university needs to assure Asian-American applicants that they aren't the subject of bias in the admissions process.
The Hunger Project
Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
Race and Foreign Language
Deborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward.
The Costly Downside to Ditching AP
While the program has its downsides, schools looking to give their students a more equal footing as college candidates shouldn’t overlook the benefits, argues Ali Lincoln.