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Freshman composition programs have done that, and we need to stop it right now, argues Jennie Young.

The myth that science should rely on proof or certainty is a view so harmful to scientific understanding that it only gives aid and comfort to climate-change deniers and others who attack it, argues Lee McIntyre.

Scott McLemee reviews Charles Pappas's One Giant Leap: Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions That Shaped History.

The job is changing and becoming more complex, writes Angel B. Pérez.

Jim Jump reflects on the career of Anita Garland.

Programs that funnel aid exclusively to publicly funded colleges and universities limit students' choices and deter them from private colleges, which may be the best option for some of them, Claude Pressnell Jr. writes.

Such an approach requires that we suspend judgment long enough to ask questions in a spirit of openness and curiosity, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright.

It is a flawed statistic for tracking college finances, argues Phillip Levine.