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The Pedagogy of Boredom
Christopher Haynes argues that instructors teaching online courses should embrace unanticipated and unconstrained time -- something he’s learned a lot about from his toddler.
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Halting the Tragedies of Fraternity Hazing
Nick Altwies questions why, from the death of Scott Krueger to that of Timothy Piazza, we haven’t seemed to learn anything in the past 20 years.
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A ’60s Radical Reflects
Richard Ohmann describes two scenarios of what happened in universities and society, then and afterward.
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Ethical College Admissions: The Shape of the (Lazy) River
Jim Jump considers reports on steep cuts in tuition rates and big investments in amenities.
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Cutting Tuition Is Not a Gimmick
Look at the numbers, writes Robert Massa. A tuition reset can be real.
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Veterans at Selective Colleges, 2017
Wick Sloane’s annual survey shows that 36 highly selective colleges are enrolling 722 former military service members this fall. That’s more than last year, but still an embarrassment, he argues.
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Solving the Work Force’s Skills Gap
It requires offering a broad-based education in which digital skills are developed throughout the entire curriculum and a wide array of co-curricular experiences, write Kimberly Cassidy and Gina Siesing.
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Itchy Twitter Finger
Scott McLemee examines The Trump Presidency: Outsider in the Oval Office, the first book about Trump's first year in office to be published by a scholarly press.