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Cost Is One Thing—Value Is Another

A shift to skills-based hiring is a good development, but don’t be fooled—the advantage for college-educated workers will continue to grow, Jamie Merisotis writes.

By Jamie Merisotis

Opinion
Columns Higher Ed Gamma

The Essential Role of Creative Fictions in Human Life

Theological and nontheological challenges to mechanistic and materialist views of nature.

By Steven Mintz

Opinion
Columns Just Visiting

What’s Next?

This too shall pass, writes John Warner.

By John Warner

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Thoughts of Future Past

Scott McLemee reviews Glenn Adamson’s A Century of Tomorrows, an account of the rise of “futurology.”

By Scott McLemee

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Opinion
Career Advice Diversity

Trans Allyship in Academia Today

What it means to be an ally has changed, Chelsea Thompto writes.

By Chelsea Thompto

Opinion
Columns Higher Ed Gamma

A Nobel Prize in History

Who would deserve it?

By Steven Mintz

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Higher Ed Is Not a Public Good

But it could be, Jonathan Gyurko writes.

By Jonathan Gyurko

The book jacket for 'Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists,' by Philip N. Cohen.
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Write as if the Truth Really Matters

As both citizens and scholars, now is not the time to withdraw, Philip N. Cohen writes.

By Philip N. Cohen