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Yes, Virginia, There's a Better Way to Grade
While we in higher education keep using it, our grading system is broken, argues Linda B. Nilson, and she offers some concrete ways to fix it.
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The Costs of 'Colorblind'
To increase racial diversity in the professoriate, we need to build the pool of Ph.D.s of color, writes Julie R. Posselt, and that means confronting barriers in the admissions process.
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Wikipedia at 15
Celebrate or hate it as you will, writes Scott McLemee, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort.
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What Cosby Scandal Teaches Us
The rescinding by various colleges of Bill Cosby's honorary degrees, says Karen Gross, leads us to a much broader question: Under what specific circumstances should an honorary degree be revoked?
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Aesthetics on the River
Charlie Tyson reflects on the lessons of beauty and thought learned from rowing and from study of the humanities.
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The Moment We've Waited For?
The recent protests on campuses have made it clear that we in higher education have students' attention and engagement, writes Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. Now we have to decide what to do with it.
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No Longer Bystanders
In these times of student protests as well as terrorism at home and abroad, American college and university leaders must commit to a far more robust infrastructure to support international students, argues William G. Durden.
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Note From New Jersey
Michael Klein challenges Dean Dad's assertion that the state's higher ed system is failing its residents.