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Teaching

What’s in a Grade? It Depends on Whom You Ask premium

By Beckie Supiano

A faculty debate over how to record course grades at Eastern Washington University played out largely along disciplinary lines.

Faculty

Is Academic Freedom’s Watchdog Losing Its Bite? premium

By Peter Schmidt

Many colleges’ administrations shrug off being censured by the American Association of University Professors, confident they won’t pay much of a price.

Admissions

Measuring Clicks, Emotions, and Brain Waves: Student Recruitment Keeps Evolving premium

By Eric Hoover

The multibillion-dollar industry is constantly trying new ways to get inside applicants’ minds.

The Ticker

NFL Player, an MIT Grad Student, Will Leave Football After Widely Reported Brain-Trauma Study

John Urschel’s decision to retire from the National Football League stemmed from a study finding that many deceased football players’ brains were rife with a debilitating disease, ESPN reported.


Views

Commentary

Assessing the Intangible in Our Students

By Raymond J. Shaw

How do we reckon with the omissions of a higher-education accountability system that focuses solely on “measurable student learning outcomes”?

Lingua Franca

Body of Punctuation

Allan Metcalf says tattoos of ellipses, semicolons, and question marks help some millennials explicate their lives.

Vitae

5 Ways to a Faster Ph.D.

By Dave Wilton

How graduate schools could shorten time-to-degree without watering down program requirements.

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