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Advancing Your Online Education Strategy
March 29, 2023
Successful planning approaches tend to ask and answer these 12 questions, Ben Chrischilles writes.
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What We Lose When We Lose Languages
March 28, 2023
In cutting languages, colleges undercut commitments to social justice and to translation, in the broadest possible sense, Jessica Blum-Sorensen writes.
The Evolving Ethics of Early Decision
March 27, 2023
Jim Jump considers the issues and the way they are changing.

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Misreading Commonality for Collusion in Financial Aid
March 23, 2022
Questioning Confessions of a Community College Dean's critique of financial aid offers.
Cancel Culture Has Cost Academics Their Jobs
March 11, 2022
Kathleen Stock and Jason Kilbourn, among others, were silenced.
The WPI Faculty's Constructive Stance
March 10, 2022
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty has played a positive and constructive role in the institution's governance.
Misrepresenting the Situation at WPI
March 2, 2022
Faculty critics don't represent the views of most professors and staff members, the board chair argues.
Land Acknowledgments and 'Congratulatory Exceptionalism'
February 25, 2022
A proposal to make them more historically accurate and informative.

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Where Will Generative AI Lead?
March 29, 2023
Looking ahead to the not-too-distant future, we are likely to see more about biocomputers. Using brain and stem cells, researchers are hoping to vastly accelerate and expand performance.
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The Kids Aren’t All Right—but Hope Can Help
February 22, 2023
Colleges have a role in cultivating hopefulness in a generation of young people suffering the mental health effects of the pandemic and political conflict, Sian Beilock writes.
Is It Time to Get Admissions Counselors Off the Road?
February 21, 2023
John Roberts reviews the trends and asks why they are still there.
Be a Gate Opener, Not a Gatekeeper
February 21, 2023
We teach students the rules for applying to grad school—but what if we committed, equally, to rewriting the rules that have historically excluded many students, Michael A. Hunt asks.
Is a Merger a Closure by Another Name?
February 20, 2023
Extreme care must be taken to ensure the smaller college’s mission is preserved, Jim Murphy writes.
When a Hamline Happens
February 17, 2023
Carol Quillen considers questions and challenges brought to the fore by the controversy over images of the Prophet Muhammad shown in an art class.

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