Best of young adult fiction: Classic and revolutionary reads for 2018
Fun sex is healthy sex: Why isn’t that on the curriculum?
Most news covers the sex lives of young people in terms of hookups, raunch culture, booty calls and friends with benefits. You might think that young people have it all figured out, equating sex with full-on, self-indulgent party time. More...
Study habits for success: tips for students
The hidden homelessness among America’s high school students
Leadership Is Our Best Investment
On every team, there are only two types of members: culture builders and culture killers. Who’s who on your team as we head into a tumultuous 2018?
I believe it’s impossible to be “culture-neutral” when you’re a member of an organization, a department staff, an athletic squad, a family, a community, even a choir or a band. More...
Predictions
By Barbara Fister. Happy new year! What disasters and crises do we have to look forward to this time around?
Perhaps I’ll get to experience that nuclear holocaust I prepared for ineffectually as a child. Maybe we’ll have a constitutional crisis like the one we had with Nixon, only with political opponents jailed in the lurking shadow of a Russian conspiracy. More...
Going to MLA, Gonna See What I Can See
By John Warner. I started my graduate studies in 1994, finished in 1997, and following a detour into corporate America, returned to the college classroom in 2001 and have worked in English-related academia since, and yet I’ve never been to the annual Modern Language Association convention. More...
Online Learning and Residential Colleges
By Joshua Kim. 4 questions that every president, provost, dean, and trustee should be asking in 2018.Online learning should be part of the strategic plan of every college and university. More...
An Alternative List of 7 Trends for 2018
By Joshua Kim. The big higher ed stories for this coming year.The 7 key trends that the Peterson and Rudgers identify for higher education in 2018 are:1. Eroding support for higher ed. 2. Challenges to the business model. 3. Violent activism and balancing free speech, safety and climate. 4. #MeToo movement in the academy. 5. Student safety in Greek life and athletics. 6. Reckoning with the racist past. 7. Presidents as public thought leaders. More...