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A New College Lesson Plan for Improving Executive Functioning

Many students are coming to college with difficulties in basic tasks and life management skills, resulting in an inability to, for example, prioritize tasks effectively and get to class on time. Academic adviser Ana Homayoun offers four ways higher ed can support these students.

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Between the Living and the Dead

Scott McLemee reviews Carl Öhman's “The Afterlife of Data.”

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A Not-So-Sweet 16 Percent

We haven’t moved the dial on transfer student success, Eileen L. Strempel and Stephen J. Handel write.

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A Case for Term Limits for College Leaders

Term limits would create conditions for more visionary and collaborative leadership, Binnur Ozkececi-Taner writes.

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Career Advice

Disembroiling HOT Moments in the Classroom

Rebecca Petitti, Amanda Irvin and Soulaymane Kachani advise instructors on how to respond when things get heated, offensive or tense.

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Blogs Learning Innovation

Scaled Online Learning as Higher Ed’s ‘Pandora’s Box’

And other imperfect academic equivalencies inspired by a fantastic book on the history of prestige TV.

Blogs Beyond Transfer

A Road Well-Traveled

Student-level enrollment data provides helpful granularity for assessing the early success of the New England Transfer Guarantee.

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Milton’s Last Stand, in Florida

Richard Utz sees curricular nostalgia at work in Stanley Fish’s choice to teach Milton at the New College of Florida.