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Teaching Well Is Harder Now

Reflecting on her first 20 years in the classroom, Rebecca Vidra identifies six key ways students and their needs have changed.

By Rebecca Vidra

Opinion
Columns Learning Innovation

3 Questions for JHU’s Ira Gooding

A conversation with a digital learning leader.

By Joshua Kim

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Opinion
Career Advice Advancing in the Faculty

Planning the Sabbatical You Need

The sabbatical you need may not be the one you think you should take, Bethany Wilinski writes.

By Bethany Wilinski

Opinion
Columns Higher Ed Gamma

Unchained Joy

The unyielding allure of the carnivalesque.

By Steven Mintz

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Career Advice Carpe Careers

Meet the Meta Postdoc

Ivonne Vidal Pizarro highlights two fellowships that prepare postdocs for careers in research-adjacent fields.

By Ivonne Vidal Pizarro

The cover of the December 2024 issue of the 'Atlantic' magazine, which features David Brooks's "How the Ivy League Broke America" as the cover story.
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Did the Ivy League Really Break America?

Jim Jump doesn’t buy David Brooks’s critique of the “meritocracy” but writes that his argument merits consideration nevertheless.

By Jim Jump

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At CSU, Orwell Meets Safetyism

California State University’s new draft policy for handling “other conduct of concern” is deeply, well, concerning, Peter C. Herman writes.

By Peter C. Herman

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An Even Better Framing: The Student as Citizen

Not customers, and not clients, either—reclaiming a vision of students as citizens points to a way forward for higher ed, Christine M. Nowik writes.

By Christine M. Nowik