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How to Mitigate Bias and Hire the Best People
Patrick Arens shares an approach to reviewing candidates that helps you select those most suited to do the job rather than most suited to get it.
‘In Pursuit’: The Power of Epistemic Humility
Elizabeth H. Bradley and Jonathon S. Kahn ask if the breakdown of dialogue on campus is in part a reflection of how we teach.
A Model for Advancing Institutional Effectiveness via Undergraduate Research
To help scale traditional faculty/student models of undergraduate research engagement, institutional leaders can consider research peer mentoring, group-based programs and community-engaged research, write Brett H. Say and Caitlin Pingree.
College as To-Do List
As learning management systems dominate, and students juggle competing priorities, Susan D. Blum asks, where is the joy, the adventure, the meaning?
Education First, Politics Second
It’s not just about Gaza. It’s about academic freedom, faculty autonomy and the boundaries between scholarship and activism.
Where Progressive Illiberalism Reigns
Litigation stemming from antisemitism on campuses shows that colleges must revive their commitments to freedom and tolerance, Austin Sarat writes.
A Leadership Position We Aren’t Prepared For
Faculty members who run a lab have a research job and a leadership job, but they are often only trained for one of those, Jen Heemstra writes.
University Decarbonization, Climate Change and ‘Growth’
Reading Growth: A History and a Reckoning and thinking about how universities will pay to transition to renewable energy sources.