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11 janvier 2020

College Admissions Testing: Even More of an Arms Race

The ACT’s recent announcement that students will be able to retake individual sections sounds like good news, and as a test prep tutor, I can say with confidence that lots of students will be better off under the new policy. While students usually get scores pretty much in line with their practice scores, the ACT, like other tests, has a margin for error. More...

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11 janvier 2020

A Not-So-Tidy Narrative

Students aren’t going to college just to get a job -- and that matters, write Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Ethical College Admissions: Applicants’ Remorse

There are many reasons for the affliction, writes Jim Jump. More...

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11 janvier 2020

The Unfairer Sex

Class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of women under Title IX have been part and parcel of the legal world for decades, write James Moore and Kursat Christoff Pekgoz, and now it's men's turn to band together. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Regional Public Universities Need Help Going Online

Online program management companies are facing criticism, but many underresourced institutions need outside partners to succeed, David Klock writes. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Strange Ed Fellows

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann describes how very different institutions -- for example, a secular, global university and a graduate theological consortium -- can come together to confront climate change and other pressing societal issues. More...

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11 janvier 2020

When Colleges and Universities Stop Making Sense

Higher education institutions and their leaders -- who claim to help graduates develop critical thinking -- are doing too little to combat the growing lack of reason roiling our society, Ryan Craig writes. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Against Recycling

The concept of self-plagiarism is peculiar and in some ways more interesting than ordinary plagiarism, observes Scott McLemee. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Bias in the Academy: Counting Co-Authors

In light of the frequent campus climate issues of recent years, many of us in higher education have been thinking about inherent biases in our institutions’ appointment, promotion and tenure systems. More...

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11 janvier 2020

Fair

A poem about final papers by Laurence Musgrove.
As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men,
but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure.
“Economy,” Thoreau
I’ve been conferencing with my students
This week on their final papers on Walden.
I’ve read over their first drafts, seven pages,
Works cited, and they are what you might
Expect: a little awkward, a little unfocused,
A little off topic, a little too personal, a little
Too little. More...

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