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Every Threat Is an Opportunity

Let’s trade prestige for accessibility.

The cover of Byung-Chul Han's 'Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity,' featuring a placid lake with forest and mountains in the background.

Living the ‘Vita Contemplativa’

Scott McLemee reviews Byung-Chul Han’s Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity.

Jazz’s Rise, Fall and Continuing Legacy

How jazz moved from a position of dominance in popular music to a niche music but also to the status of Black classical music.

Cover of The Geek Way by Andrew McAfee

University Culture and ‘The Geek Way’

What higher ed should absorb and reject from tech culture.

There’s a New (Il)literacy Myth

Too frequently scholars and the media dangerously misrepresent students’ ability to read and interest in reading.

A blue ceramic bowl with its cracks mended with gold in the kintsugi style

Learning a Language Called ‘How to Provost’

Laurie McLary reflects on what it’s like to wholly, humanly inhabit an administrative role whose language and norms you are only just learning.

What We’re LEARNing

Early indications from a new national effort to recognize undergraduate learning.