http://chronicle.com/section/Commentary/44/ Opinion & Ideas :: Commentary Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:34:50 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139833/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Give-the-Rich-and/139833/ If colleges do not act soon to resolve the tensions between commercialism and education in athletics programs, a resolution will be imposed upon them.

]]> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139837/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Online-Partnerships-Legal/139837/ When nonprofit colleges team up with for-profit companies, the colleges need to protect themselves.

]]> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139845/ http://chronicle.com/article/When-College-Becomes-a-Risky/139845/ Families are less price-resistant than they should be, which makes it easier for colleges to increase tuition.

]]> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139697/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Repair-Income-Based/139697/ Simplify the calculations, use a market-based interest rate, and eliminate loan forgiveness, a member of Congress proposes.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139691/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Forgiveness-the/139691/ With all the ways that students can now manipulate their GPAs, the measure doesn't mean much anymore.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139575/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Federal-Parent-Rip-Off/139575/ The Parent PLUS loan program enlists poor people with bad credit borrowing at high interest rates to do right by their children.

]]> Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139577/ http://chronicle.com/article/Pacific-Islanders-a/139577/ Well-meaning scholarship programs are limiting opportunities for a group that is severely underrepresented in higher education.

]]> Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139459/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Studentthe-Spark/139459/ Amid the dullards and the dozers sits that one undergraduate who makes it all worthwhile.

]]> Tue, 28 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139461/ http://chronicle.com/article/On-CourageDifference-/139461/ Words of inspiration from 11 speakers at commencement ceremonies this spring.

]]> Tue, 28 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139463/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dark-Cloud-Over-Academic/139463/ The government wants to broaden how the courts define sexual harassment, a change that might expose colleges to First Amendment lawsuits.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139345/ http://chronicle.com/article/When-2-Colleges-Become-One/139345/ The president of a college created by a recent consolidation describes the pitfalls and the many benefits.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139347/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-Little-Data-Can-Solve/139347/ You don't need millions of dollars to improve graduation rates. Georgia State did it with tiny grants for the right students.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139353/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Talk-About-Sex-on-Campus/139353/ It is time to begin a sustained, coordinated effort to create a sexually healthy population of undergraduates.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139181/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Bring-Clarity-to/139181/ Students serve an important role in catering to a sub-industry that rewards colleges for rejecting the largest percentage of applicants.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139183/ http://chronicle.com/article/To-Improve-Completion/139183/ Rural America stands as an untapped source of potential college success stories, write two officials at the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139043/ http://chronicle.com/article/Reciprocity-Is-Essential-for/139043/ A new report proposes a way to provide more access for students and quality assurance for institutions.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139033/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Self-Publication-Gold-Rush-/139033/ Ultimately that industry descriptor is hardly the best rubric for the way scholarly communication is democratizing.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139031/ http://chronicle.com/article/Counting-Not-Curtailing/139031/ We need a strategy to include time outside of class—one that doesn't conflict with the Affordable Care Act.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138861/ http://chronicle.com/article/College-Graduates-Deserve-Much/138861/ If students can't present information about their actual learning, then that learning is devalued. And devalued things don't get the support they warrant.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138855/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-President-Can/138855/ Chief executives' actions and behavior have a crucial impact, for better or worse, on how their institutions are perceived.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138859/ http://chronicle.com/article/CommunicationCounseling/138859/ Empowered faculty members can play a vital role in preventing violence. Making sure they can do so more effectively is among colleges' greatest challenges.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138683/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Is-College-For-/138683/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138651/ http://chronicle.com/article/Found-in-Translation-A/138651/ Writing for a general reader, far from being a time-consuming diversion, can help polish and refine your scholarship.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138503/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-We-Can-Be-Better-Stewards/138503/ Today's higher-education leaders have become gatekeepers of upward mobility.

]]> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138515/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Realities-of/138515/ Two worn but never weary travelers on the higher-education-reform road offer some perspective on policy and politics.

]]> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138495/ http://chronicle.com/article/Corporate-Responsibility/138495/ Business schools should do more to imbue students with a sense of social values.

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