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Race on Campus

Talking Over the Racial Divide premium

By Dan Berrett

How much can a half-semester course shift a lifetime of experience?

Governance

When a Board Fires a President Who Fired a Provost premium

By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz

The leadership shake-up at Temple University, where the Board of Trustees is moving to dismiss Neil D. Theobald, is a story of shifting blame and questions of financial mismanagement.

Students

In Houston, a Student Leader Faces Calls to Resign After Posting 'Forget #BlackLivesMatter'

By Arielle Martinez

The post, by the vice president of the University of Houston’s student government, has since been deleted. But many of her peers are expressing outrage on social media.


Views

First Person

Do You Assign Enough Reading? Or Too Much?

By Charlie Wesley

The real issue is not the number of pages you assign but how to make reading matter in our classrooms.

Vitae

Tests and Writing, Not Tests or Writing

By David Gooblar

Whether you teach in the humanities or in the sciences, there are benefits to using both forms of assessment.

Lingua Franca

Words Fail

Anne Curzan considers the limits and the fundamental importance of language at difficult moments.

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