Academe Today

Preparing the Neediest for Work

When low-income students enter the work force, they often lack the built-in advantages of their wealthy peers. Can colleges fill the gap?

The Making of a Modern-Day Apprentice

Working two dead-end jobs and going to college, Victor Gutierrez was ready to give up when he learned about a new kind of apprenticeship.

The Future of Work: How Colleges Can Prepare Students for the Jobs Ahead

In the eyes of many students and their parents, higher education is tied to a job. And yet the world of work is poised to undergo a number of sharp changes over the next 10 years. This report explores the future job market, reinventing colleges’ career services, and higher education’s role in the work force.

Research

A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math

In the hunt for complex causes of the reproducibility crisis, universities and researchers may not be giving enough attention to a simpler cure.

Technology

With the ‘Coming Battles’ Between People and Machines, Educators Are All the More Vital

Andrew Ng, a computer scientist and co-founder of Coursera, says innovations in artificial intelligence will both create great wealth and raise ethical challenges if we want not just a wealthier society “but also a fairer society.”

Commentary

A Conservative Defense of Free Speech for a Black Activist

Lisa Durden was fired as an adjunct professor for espousing views that her college did not accept. To a conservative, that ought to be deeply offensive.

Lingua Franca

Repeal and Replace — or Revise? Obamacare!

It contains some of the same things, Allan Metcalf points out, but Republicans have to call it Repeal and Replace, while Democrats could support it only if it were called Revision.

First Person

All the Classroom’s a Stage

What teaching and acting have in common.

Vitae

Dear New Instructor: It’s Not All on You

The most successful learning environments are created together — by the faculty member and the students.