Recent Articles
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Partnerships: a Different Approach to International Education
Branch campuses are expensive and often fail. But partnerships allow universities to share their strengths.
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'Sex Week' Should Arouse Caution
Universities should take control of popular campus workshops about sex, where pornography, sex toys, and violence take center stage.
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How to Create a Problem-Solving Institution
These five strategies will help universities turn good ideas into reality (and avoid organizational silos).
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University Globalization Is Here to Stay
While education trend lines can shift unexpectedly, international student mobility and other facets of global higher education will continue to expand.
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When Family Ties Bind African Universities
The institutions are weakened by the many outside demands on their faculty and staff, including family duties that require travel to remote hometowns.
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Needed: Support for Professional Science Master's Degrees
The innovative, growing degree programs respond to industry's needs and attract students to science and math.
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5 Non-Western Teaching Strategies
Methods from other cultures can enliven the classroom.
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China's Deficit in American Studies
How to make up the unfortunate intellectual imbalance of trade and understanding between China and the United States.
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Making 'la Diferencia': How to Bring Hispanic Students to Your College
Invite them to visit. Meet with their parents. And learn to say their names properly.
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Have Colleges Flouted the Prudent-Investor Rule?
Colleges, like other institutions that operate in a trust relationship, have long been required to invest in a reasonably conservative way. They haven't.
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An Academy to Support Outstanding Teachers
A National Teaching Academy, sponsored jointly by the federal government, donations, corporations, and colleges, could give classroom teaching the gravitas it needs.
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Why America Needs a Smithsonian of Basic Skills
A high-profile center devoted to remedial education could lead to a sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with academic underpreparation.
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Too Many Researchers Are Reluctant to Share Their Data
It's time for a new model of openness to replace traditional ways of thinking about research findings.
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How to Teach the Trophy Generation
To engage with today's pampered students, professors need new techniques.
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The Moral Obligations of Scientists
Should environmental researchers advocate for policy? The answer is yes, of course; the question is how to do so effectively.
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The Lure, and the Risks, of Starting a University
As start-ups, ventures in nonprofit higher education are infused with a sense of mission. Then reality sinks in, for better and for worse.
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Why Do You Think They're Called For-Profit Colleges?
The worst players in the industry are ruthlessly exploiting the commodified college degree. But they didn't commodify it in the first place.
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7 Signs of Successful Study-Abroad Programs
Why do as few as 1.5 percent of college students study overseas each year? Because colleges thwart their efforts. Here's how not to.
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Ghostwriting and Academic Medicine
Universities must do much more to stop the pervasive practice of pharmaceutical companies' publishing under the bylines of academic researchers.
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Serving the University: Better Mentors for Young Professors Would Help
Few junior faculty members understand the role of faculty senates, university standing committees, and how such groups make policies on campus.
