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Searching for Success
Herman Berliner shares lessons for how you can avoid mistakes when searching for people to serve in top-level positions like president, provost, vice president or dean.
Why Is the Business Office Always Hassling Us?
Yes, the questions are annoying, but tracking resources keeps the institution out of trouble.
How I Came to Love CRT Bans
Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.
Engaging Learners for Relevancy and Retention
Too often we assess our own learning by how pleasant the learning experience is, rather than assessing retention as well as how authentically relevantly and meaningfully those experiences and outcomes apply to real-life situations.
Who Are Higher Ed’s True Heroes?
Producing leaders is not enough to qualify.
Toxic Paternalism and Ph.D. Programs
Many graduate students live in fear of the consequences of disappointing their overcontrolling advisers, but little is discussed or done about the issue, writes Elizabeth Stice.
1 + 1 + 2
Looking for good data on the success of early-college students at the bachelor’s level.
Opinion
Political Interference in Higher Ed Is Becoming Endemic
David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler write that the pandemic has helped fuel growing government intervention in higher ed.