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Friday, July 14, 2017


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Government

Who Does DeVos’s Department Really Represent? premium

By Adam Harris and Eric Kelderman

Advocates for students fret over the education secretary’s loosening of the regulatory reins. But few colleges are complaining.

Sexual Assault

After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions

By Sarah Brown

"We need to get this right," Ms. DeVos said of preventing and responding to campus sexual assault. But she offered no specifics on her plans for change.

Technology

How a BYU Campus Is Reshaping Online Education — and the Mormon Faith premium

By Goldie Blumenstyk

PathwayConnect, a yearlong program created by Brigham Young University-Idaho, has graduated nearly 24,000 students by cutting marketing costs, stacking credentials, and mixing online classes with real-world meetups. What can other colleges learn from the endeavor?

Government

If Trump Pulls Back, Can States Do More to Regulate For-Profit Colleges? premium

By Nell Gluckman

A lawsuit filed last week by a group of state attorneys general against the U.S. Department of Education may indicate that states will ramp up their regulation of the for-profit sector. Here’s what they could do.


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Commentary

How to Flatten the Cost Curve of College premium

By Alana Dunagan

At least a few colleges are looking beyond incremental steps to reach new students, raise the bottom line, and rethink the role of higher education.

Lingua Franca

Got a Great Joke About Language? Enter This Contest

Allan Metcalf encourages readers to enter the Linguistic Society of America’s Friday Funny contest.


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Advice


Vitae

‘Radical Candor’ and Faculty Annual Reviews

By Tricia Serio

We sit in our offices, surrounded by potential sources of advice right down the hall, and yet we don’t turn to them systematically for guidance.

First Person

Academic Ethics: To Rank or Not to Rank?

By Brian Leiter

Should faculty members participate in the “world university rankings” industry?


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