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Featured Gig: VP of Online Enrollment and Integrated Marketing Solutions at Carnegie
A conversation with Shankar Prasad, Carnegie’s chief strategy officer.
Making Service Visible
Asking faculty to submit a service portfolio could move the needle on “service slacking” and bring individual and institutional benefits, Beth Mitchneck writes.
This Summer, Make a Plan to Prepare Grad Students to Defend Academic Freedom
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill offers suggestions for a summer action plan.
We Need to Ask Smarter Questions of Ed Tech
We should be holding marketing claims to the same scrutiny we bring to assessing research results, Laura Nicole Miller writes.
They Attack Because We’re Strong, Not Weak
A longer-term view makes clear how strong U.S. higher ed actually is—though the rules are now being reset, Frank Fernandez writes.
In Defense of Malcolm Gladwell and ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’
Why Gladwell’s mediocre social science and simplistic critiques of elite higher education should not dissuade academics from reading his books.
Managing Political Risk
Five things every president and board can do to optimize their position.
The Manhattan Statement: A Debate
Eric Kaufmann responds to John K. Wilson’s criticisms of a conservative group’s “new contract” for higher ed.