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Pre-Gaming Your Dissertation
Setting yourself up for a successful dissertation in a STEM field.
Ethical College Admissions: The Cult of Selectivity
Jim Jump hopes that Stanford's recent announcement that it won't boast about admissions statistics leads to reflection at other colleges about the quest for more and more applicants.
Rankings Must Reconsider Alumni Giving Rates
The metric used in the U.S. News rankings is deeply flawed and can encourage a profoundly limited view of the positive impact of alumni relations, argues Sue Cunningham.
Nonprofit Leadership by and for Early Career Scientists
Adriana Bankston encourages early career scientists to seek opportunities to benefit society beyond academe.
Applying 'Winners Take All' To Higher Ed
Grappling with some uncomfortable ideas from a provocative book.
Distant Early Warning
Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee.