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‘Rigorous’ and ‘Weed-Out’ Are Not Synonymous

The controversial firing of an organic chemistry professor at New York University speaks to broader issues about student success in “weed-out” courses, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.

What Ails Our Labor Market Is Evident in College

Both colleges and employers must fix work-readiness failures and inequitable work-readiness practices, writes Brandon Busteed.

Literacy Is Power

Literacy’s uses and liberatory potential.

An Alternative Approach to Affirmative Action

Catharine B. Hill writes that there’s a better way to make access to the largest subsidies at the more selective institutions available to talented students from all backgrounds.

Offering Teaching Postdocs Can Save the Humanities!

They can be a high-impact way to address and enhance the job prospects of new Ph.D.s in an increasingly dire academic job market, writes Melissa Ianetta.

5 Challenges of Navigating a Lifetime Alt-Ac Career

Thinking about working until 2035 as an alternative academic.

Friday Fragments

Responses on dead scholarships, a search for a grant, an open-ended question and Parents’ Weekend.