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Opinion

Breaking the Cycle of Bad Mentoring

It stops with us.

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Opinion

Removing Agency: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Infantilizing higher education does not make it more accountable. It makes it less capable of doing the work democracy requires of it—and more useful to those who never wanted it to do that work in the first place.

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Opinion

What Presidents Would Like Their Boards to Know

Boards are the big black box in higher ed, but presidents need their support.

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Opinion

The Time for the 30-Hour Workweek Has Come

Higher ed should lead the way.

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Opinion

‘A Different World’ Reached No. 1. Why That Matters for HBCUs and Hollywood

Netflix reboot offers HBCUs a powerful recruitment opportunity and reminds the entertainment industry that Black stories attract enormous audiences.

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Opinion

Featured Gig: Dartmouth Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Four questions for Erin DeSilva, senior associate provost for learning innovation.

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Opinion

What My Students Said About a Phone and Laptop Ban

Students were mostly supportive of the policy, saying that banning electronic devices from the classroom improved their learning.

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Opinion

Why Do We Keep Debating the M.L.S.?

Here’s why librarians can’t resolve our recurrent arguments about the import of the field’s professional degree.