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Professors Share: The Moment That Changed the Way I Teach premium

We asked a few well-regarded instructors to tell us about an experience that marked a turning point in their approach to the classroom. Here’s what they had to say.

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Finance

Amazon Mania Revealed These 3 Things About Higher Ed premium

By Lindsay Ellis

Proposals to the giant online retailer as it sought a second headquarters showed universities’ openness to collaborate with industry and with one another.

Campus Safety

What Would It Take to Keep Campus Protests Safe? One Idea: a ‘Mobile Force Platoon’

By Vimal Patel

A proposal for the University of North Carolina system has drawn fire for its steep cost and for what one critic termed its “totalitarian” approach.

Crit Lit

You’ve Heard the Conservative Case Against Higher Ed. But Have You Read the Novel?

By Chris Quintana

If you were to build a religion around the most extreme higher-ed stereotypes peddled by the likes of Breitbart and Campus Reform, Trigger Warning would be its sacred text.

People

How Academe Can Retrieve Its Good Name premium

By Peter Monaghan

While colleges need not cast aside their historic mission, the authors of a new book say, they must still satisfy public demands.


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Commentary

Free Speech Is a Core Tenet of the Academy. College Trustees Really Ought to Know That.

By Keith E. Whittington

Temple University’s board chairman is wrong to go after a tenured professor for what he called “hate speech.”

Lingua Franca

Why Do I Really, Really Want to Say ‘Had Went’?

That construction, once considered American vernacular, is spreading, says Ben Yagoda. It’s more vivid than standard English, so he might try it.


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