The Elephant in the Room: A Fat Woman in Academe
10 Ways to Make Sure Your Writing Happens
Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Students
Improving Graduation Rates by Nudging Faculty, Not Students
Jeff Gold, Roy Stripling and Michal Kurlaender describe a program that encourages professors to use tools offering specifics about the academic trajectories of their students to help facilitate those students' paths to a college degree. More...
Censorship Through Noise
Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality demonstrates that one variety of globalization is compatible with economic protectionism, cultural isolationism and an obsession with national sovereignty, Scott McLemee writes. More...
Fixes for Short-Term Pell
Opening up Pell Grants to short-term training is a promising idea, but changes are needed to prevent unintended consequences for equity, writes Jim Jacobs. More...
Improved Grading Makes Classrooms More Equitable
While faculty members believe that their practices are fair and objective, a closer look reveals that they are anything but, argues Joe Feldman. More...
Ethical College Admissions: Harvard's Preferences
Jim Jump reviews a paper on how the university treats athletes, legacies and others. More...
Will Higher Education Roar in the '20s?
John Katzman describes the changes that colleges and universities will -- or should -- make in the next decade. More...