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Highlights: fewer colleges meeting targets for this year, a higher bar for Asians, skepticism about new standardized writing tests and a new application, mixed feelings on Hillary Clinton’s college plan and applicants’ criminal records.
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Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education releases its first report, using data to lay out a broad picture of students at today's two- and four-year colleges.
NCAA calls on college leaders to sign pledge promising to recruit and interview more women and ethnic minorities for top sports positions, but stops short of requiring institutions to do so.
Computer-generated gobbledygook can pass for the real thing with many faculty members, study finds.
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Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair.
Career Advice
In a hypothetical case study, Barbara McFadden Allen, Robin Kaler and Ruth Watkins give advice to leaders who have to reconsider the directions in which they are heading.
Blogs
GradHacker
September 22, 2016
Steps you can take this week, this month, and this year.
Technology and Learning
September 22, 2016
Why you have a fast job in a slow institution.
Student Affairs and Technology
September 22, 2016
Welcoming students and scholars from around the world
The World View
September 22, 2016
It is overwhelmingly evident that there is a remarkable and callous disregard for academic ethics and standards in a scramble by Canadian universities to sign up foreign students.
Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education
September 22, 2016
Susan T. Evans offers advice and examples of how to build your marketing governance plan organically.
Library Babel Fish
September 21, 2016
Big data is being secretly wielded in ways that increase inequality and unaccountability, and a former quant can tell you want it all means – most entertainingly.
Just Visiting
September 20, 2016
I could make 10x more helping college students cheat than by teaching college.
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