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When College Degrees Impede Opportunity

College credentialing and degree inflation tend to serve the needs of employers, not students, write Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison.
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Imagining a Different Ending for the Kevin Hart / Oscars Scandal

Is there a scenario where everyone wins, and that makes us all a little better? How would we play for that?
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Ethical College Admissions: A Tragedy

Jim Jump considers the reports of abuse and application fraud by a private school in Louisiana that has been highly praised.
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College and Beginning Afresh

We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik.
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A Fantastic 'Breaking News' Filtered Through Higher Ed Anxieties

What the best book I’ve read on the newspaper digital disruption might say about the future of higher ed.
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Outside Academe: The First Year of Retirement

Michael Morris muses with some humor about the benefits and challenges, while offering suggestions for other academics.
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Against the New Normal

In advance of International Human Rights Day, Scott McLemee reviews Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky.
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A New Chapter

A poem by Laurence Musgrove on reading books.