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Calling Foul on the Accreditors

Higher education is no game, and accreditors are misguided referees, Kyle Beltramini writes in response to two recent Inside Higher Ed opinion pieces.

By Kyle Beltramini

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Race, Masculinity and Sexuality Through an Operatic Lens

Opera begins to reckon with its race and audience problems.

By Steven Mintz

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Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rethinking Parking

A review of Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar.

By Matt Reed

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Levels of Accuracy

As an academic, you are sometimes, maybe, kinda allowed to write simple declarative sentences, writes Rachel Toor.

By Rachel Toor

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‘Generations’ and Tomorrow’s Gen Z Academic Workforce

How will colleges and universities attract and retain faculty and staff born between 1995 and 2012?

By Joshua Kim

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The Everyday Work of Transformation

Simple, scalable frameworks can help students understand the why of what they’re learning, Cathy N. Davidson and Rachel Stephenson write.

By Cathy N. Davidson and Rachel Stephenson

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A Grandmother’s View of the College Admissions Process

What one academic learned while watching her granddaughter.

By Elaine P. Maimon

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Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

Friday Fragments

Reader responses, a leadership dilemma and a moral victory.

By Matt Reed