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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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Grants for Doctoral Students Remain Available
September 23, 2022
Some programs may be ending, but Mellon and ACLS still support dissertation work and early-career scholars.
Flawed Survey on the 'Liberal Arts'
September 20, 2022
Studies that don't clearly define key terms reinforce misunderstanding rather than guiding students and families.
'Stop With the Academic Clickbaiting' on the Humanities
September 13, 2022
Don't dismiss the efforts of fellow academics—and especially the hard work of junior professors—to keep the humanities vital.
Misrepresenting Seattle Pacific's Reasons for Suing Its State
August 16, 2022
University officials believed it needed to protect its First Amendment right to hire based on sincerely held religious beliefs and maintain a voluntary academic community based on a shared framework of faith.
How Young People Have Changed
August 4, 2022
Growing up was always hard to do. It’s getting harder, and universities are doing little to help.

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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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March 28, 2023
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March 28, 2023
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Admissions Staff Accountability and Travel
March 20, 2023
Don’t throw the student recruitment baby out with the COVID bathwater, write Robert Massa and Bill Conley.
The Internet Archive Is a Library
March 17, 2023
A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians.
How to Recover From Pandemic Learning Loss
March 16, 2023
To address pandemic learning loss, schools and colleges must fundamentally rethink education, shifting to experiential, interactive learning, G. Gabrielle Starr writes.
A New Era of Union Activism in Higher Ed
March 15, 2023
Are higher ed leaders ready, James B. Thelen asks.
Beyond Ideological Debates
March 14, 2023
Programs responding to lack of intellectual diversity are needed, but we must also improve the processes through which these and other new programs are approved, Margaret Spellings writes.

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