college

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/24/2020
  

  What Is College For?

  by Steven Mintz

  Two new books argue for a robust and engaged humanistic study as indispensable to higher education. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/5/2020
  

  The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free

  by Claire Bond Potter

  College was already a financial house of cards. Then coronavirus hit.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/7/2020
  

  The Next Great Generation

  by Julian Zelizer

  The class of 2020 will be remembered for all that it sacrificed.  

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• 12/15/19
  

  Why Colleges Need a Required Class in African American History

  by David Barber

  The real test for our campus is not how loudly we denounce white supremacy, how “disgusting” we find it, but how steadfastly we commit ourselves to really educating our students in the history of this country, a country born in white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/6/19
  

  How college dorms evolved to fit America’s gender and racial politics

  Ever since the 17th century, educators and architects designed university housing with societal mores in mind.

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• SOURCE: Society for Intellectual History Blog
  8/31/2019
  

  A Look into the First Day of this Professor's History Class

  by L.D. Burnett

  After going over the syllabus, professor L.D. Burnett wants her students to access the core of historical study.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  How the advanced placement program is failing students

  by Annie Abrams

  A new cookie-cutter website designed by the College Board represents a perversion of the program’s original mission of fostering creative and critical thinking.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/19
  

  Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

  by Lee C. Bollinger

  Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.

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• 6/9/19
  

  Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Over the past 40 years, the average cost of attending a four-year college increased by over 150 percent for both public and private institutions.  

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/27/2019
  

  Billionaires can't fix college: Jim Sleeper on the real crisis in higher education

  by Jim Sleeper

  In this conversation between historian Matthew Frye Jacobson and Professor Jim Sleeper, they discuss how to reclaim college from market ideology

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/15/19
  

  Who’s the snowflake? We tenured professors, that’s who

  by Anita Bernstein

  Our freedom to say what we want is not only tolerated but celebrated.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Parents, College, Money, and the American Dream

  by Janet Golden

  At a time when less than 20 percent of Americans completed high school and far fewer went on to higher education, financial institutions told parents to start saving for college.  

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• 10-27-15
  

  Why Tuition-Free College Makes Sense

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  We need to remember that until fairly recently, the United States had a free or virtually free system of public higher education.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  1-26-15
  

  The Day the Purpose of College Changed

  by Dan Berrett

  After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-8-15
  

  The Roots of Obama’s Ambitious College Plan

  The roots of President Obama’s ambitious proposal for free community college can be found in a 2008 book by the economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz called “The Race Between Education and Technology.”

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8-6-14
  

  How Did the Federal Government Rate Your College a Century Ago?

  For the sake of the U.S. Department of Education, if only it were still this easy.

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• SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor
  4-8-14
  

  Why are colleges discriminating against women?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Colleges routinely reject talented young women in favor of less qualified young men.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  11-24-13
  

  Sex Drive Blurs Line Surrounding Assault

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  On today’s college campuses, rape is harder to define.

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  11-14-13
  

  Multitasking: What a Professor Knows That Students Don’t

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Research shows that a distracted mind incurs "switching costs."

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5-26-13
  

  Jim Cullen: Review of Jeffrey Selingo's "College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students" (New Harvest, 2013)

  Jim Cullen teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York. His last book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, was published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. His next book, A Brief History of the Modern Media, will be published next year by Wiley-Blackwell.