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Why Israel’s Universities Stood Up for Democracy
March 31, 2023
University of Haifa president Ron Robin explains why the country’s research universities went on strike to protest legislation that would overhaul the judiciary.
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Creating a More Gender-Inclusive Campus
March 31, 2023
Reflecting on the existential challenge of being transgender, Jamie MaKinster offers suggestions for inclusive campus policies and practices around gendered language.
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Adaptive Technology in Gateway Courses: Improving Equitable Outcomes
March 30, 2023
Allowing students to learn at their own pace via adaptive technology can lead to greater completion of gateway courses and higher grades within courses—when integration and implementation efforts are designed with equity in mind, write Karen A. Stout of Achieving the Dream and Jean-Claude Brizard of Digital Promise.

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May 5, 2022
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Incomplete Analysis of Corequisite Model of Remediation
April 28, 2022
Examining only pass rates of students who enroll in college-level course ignores students who fail at any point during long sequences of remediation.
In Support of Sara Goldrick-Rab and the Hope Center
April 25, 2022
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Advantages of Corequisite Remediation
April 25, 2022
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April 23, 2022
Having one office oversee this work is an outdated model. It requires shared responsibility and shared power.

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March 31, 2023
Presidential indictment as a teachable moment, community college bachelor degrees, reader responses on encouraging critical thinking.
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March 30, 2023
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March 30, 2023
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Students Talking
March 8, 2023
Classrooms are filled with students who need to think and talk about gender violence, and professors have a unique opportunity to help that happen, Heather Hewett writes.
How to Kill Innovation: The Florida ‘Master Plan’
March 7, 2023
Attacks on institutional autonomy, academic freedom and tenure, and diversity initiatives undermine the climate for innovation, Michael Lanford and William G. Tierney write.
The End of Rankings
March 6, 2023
William D. Adams writes that it’s time for all colleges to follow the lead of Colorado College and drop U.S. News.
Building Up Books
March 6, 2023
New guidelines aim to make peer review more inclusive while also acknowledging the stresses on the peer-review process, Andrew Berzanskis, Jane Bunker and Rebecca Colesworthy write.
Reclaiming Subjectivity: A Report to an Academy
March 3, 2023
Philip Weinstein considers what STEM can’t teach us—and literature can.

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