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Challenging the Transactional Mindset

Students struggle with agency. Without it, it’s hard to accomplish anything, learning-wise.

Reducing the Costs of College Transfer

How some institutions are removing barriers through student-centered policies.

10 miniature wooden people figurines are pictured, each with speech bubbles over their heads, against a dark-gray background.

You Can’t Outsource Educational Leadership

Colleges shouldn’t rely on third-party providers to teach students fundamental skills in civil discourse, Eli Gottlieb writes.

Faculty unions are essential to the higher ed mission. And they're under threat.

Faculty unions at McGill university say they face similar pushback from university administrators as graduate workers at Boston University

The Reinvention of the Life Course

How colleges can better prepare students to thrive in today’s volatile, uncertain environment.

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Teaching English in a Chinese Way

Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li.

A young mother sitting at a table at the library balances a child on her lap as she takes notes on an open notebook next to two textbooks (one open, one closed).

Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation

Our current sociopolitical environment brings new urgency to the need to better support students who are single mothers, Aimée Myers writes.

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The Summer Break That Isn’t

Faculty need to be able to use the time in ways they can return rested and renewed in the fall, but that often doesn’t happen, writes Susannah M. Givens.