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The Bumpy Road to Free College
Hillary Clinton’s plan would require the federal government and the states to find a new way to work together. How would that play out? The federal highway system might hold some answers. -
The Review
Micro-Barriers Loom Large for First-Generation Students
In his book Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance demonstrates how relatively tiny differences in culture can make an enormous difference in access. -
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2013: An Arm and a Leg
The high cost of college sent some students into the “body commodification” market, where they exploited the value of their own skin and what’s underneath it. -
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Groundbreaking Osteopath Helps Set Up Medical College in Arkansas
To help relieve the state’s doctor shortage, Barbara Ross-Lee is leading a site of NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State. -
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What I’m Reading: ‘The Future of the Professions’
A law dean considers what law schools should teach, now that more legal work is handled by artificial intelligence. -
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Yale Graduate Students’ ‘Microunit’ Unionization Strategy Could Have Nationwide Implications
Administrators at the university oppose a move to organize unions at the department level, and a regional labor-board director will decide whether the effort can proceed. -
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The Review
How Political Science Gets Politics Wrong
The field failed to foresee 2016’s electoral chaos. -
The Review
Our ‘Prophet of Deceit’
Studies by WWII-era social scientists provide a starting point for explaining Trump’s appeal. -
The Review
The Carnival Campaign
How an absurdist ’60s fable augured our made-for-TV electoral dystopia. -
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What You Need to Know About the Past 7 Days
Strikes are settled at Harvard and 14 state colleges in Pennsylvania, while jurors in the “Rolling Stone” defamation trial hear testimony. And Shakespeare will share the credit for some plays. -
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Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (11/4/2016)
Top Chief Executives Central Connecticut State University, Zulma Toro-Ramos Lenoir-Rhyne University, Frederick Whitt Manhattanville College, Michael Geisler Robeson Community College, Kimberly Gold University of Akron, Matthew Wilson University of Tennessee at Martin, Keith Carver Appointments… -
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Deadlines (11/4/2016)
Awards and prizes November 1: Humanities. Gettysburg College offers the $50,000 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which is awarded annually. The prize is given for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era. Publishers,… -
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A Challenge for Mental-Health Experts: Should They Weigh In on Trump?
Psychiatrists have long abided by the “Goldwater rule,” which bars them from offering professional opinions on public figures they have not examined in person. This year’s Republican nominee has some specialists wavering. -
Regional Publics
In Pennsylvania, the Strike Is Over, but the Challenges Remain
Limited funding and a narrowing pool of prospective students leave the state’s regional public institutions facing a difficult future. -
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For Some Republicans, Trump’s Higher-Ed Proposals Reflect ‘Lost Opportunity’
The GOP presidential nominee floated a plan that surprised policy experts. Some of them lamented the lateness and the lack of substance of his ideas. -
Campus Safety
Resident Assistants Find Themselves on the Front Lines of Title IX Compliance
College housing’s student workers have long been relied on to resolve roommate disputes, but the heightened enforcement of the federal gender-equity law has made them key reporters of sexual violence. -
Faculty
A Preordained Presidential Pick Gives Rise to a New Governance Battle
Georgia’s university system skipped a formal search in selecting a controversial state politician to run Kennesaw State University. Professors are fighting the move to keep it from happening again. -
The Review
The Legacy of William Bowen
He had enormous impact on higher education. But in his later years, his work on two of his great interests were especially influential. -
On Leadership
Video: Doubling Down on Innovation for Success
Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, discusses how his institution has used a combination of global focus and experiential learning to raise its profile, and how colleges should be preparing students for the job market of tomorrow. -