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November 12, 2010

Abolish Tenure - But Then What?

Jason Fertig

Jason Fertig calls for long-term thinking about faculty employment and evaluation. If tenure were to be abolished, what would take its place?

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November 12, 2010

Money on the Table

Peter Wood

How colleges transform increases in federal student aid into higher tuition and fees.

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November 10, 2010

Praise for Raritan Valley Community College

Ashley Thorne

Andrew Hacker, co-author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It, has great things to say about a college near and dear to u......

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November 10, 2010

Colleges Just Can't Avoid Rising Costs

George Leef

That, anyway, is an explanation we sometimes hear from the higher education establishment. Colleges are supposedly helpless victims of rising costs, particular because rising productivity elsewhere......

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November 10, 2010

Forecast: Iridescent Drops of Nothingness

Peter Wood

Peter Wood predicts that online education, either rigorous or at “the level of a video game,” will become a standard feature of American college instruction.

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