http://chronicle.com/section/Commentary/44/ Opinion & Ideas :: Commentary Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:01:03 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130743/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academically-Adrift-The/130743/ The study revealed truths about student learning that those in academe didn't want the world to know. But now that it does, there's no going back.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130728/ http://chronicle.com/article/Just-Call-Me-Emma/130728/ A president's daughter says her last name "dropped out of the equation." She wanted students and faculty to get to know her without making assumptions.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130737/ http://chronicle.com/article/President-Daddy/130737/ A father fights the urge to be more presidential than paternal.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130669/ http://chronicle.com/article/US-Education-in-Chinese/130669/ The two countries' education systems are headed in opposite directions, aiming at exactly what the other one is trying to give up.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130660/ http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Speech-Off-Campus-Must-Be/130660/ The outcome in "Tatro v. U. of Minnesota" could give colleges almost limitless authority to silence speech critical of their programs, no matter the source.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130604/ http://chronicle.com/article/Vassar-Gets-It-Wrong/130604/ Why didn't it just admit the early-decision students who had been mistakenly told they got in? Because it's holding out for the Ivy rejects who can plump its ranking.

]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:40:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130596/ http://chronicle.com/article/Changeeduthe-Problem/130596/ One reader had hoped that the new book would be a road map for realizing for-profit education's possibilities. Now he's wondering whether we can even get there from here.

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130473/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Noble-Lecture-Thats-More/130473/ It's not at commencement. It's the one when the university comes together to hear a great intellect expound on a topic of lasting importance.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130475/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liberal-Arts-as-Guideposts/130475/ The relevance of a liberal-arts education and the need to ensure its robust future are greater now than ever before.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130459/ http://chronicle.com/article/International-Volunteer/130459/ Five ways to ensure that your project is a win-win-win: for students, for community partners, and for your institution.

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130408/ http://chronicle.com/article/Its-Time-to-Shine-the/130408/ The traditional model doesn't provide a comprehensive understanding of energy, and retards progress in an increasingly globalized world.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130410/ http://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Mints-a-Valuable-New-Form/130410/ The Massachusetts university is setting a high standard for online learning that other elite colleges should emulate.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130418/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Gotcha-Test-for-Aspiring/130418/ Show any sign of weakness, and the faculty will eviscerate you. Picture a lion and a three-legged gazelle. You aren't the lion.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130355/ http://chronicle.com/article/An-Uneasy-Nexus-Between/130355/ Is censorship of research articles justified when it's in the interest of safeguarding the nation?

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130345/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Danger-Is-to-Research/130345/ The members of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity don't have the expertise to accurately evaluate the avian-flu-virus threat.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130349/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Delicate-Balance-That-Must/130349/ When scientific research produces results potentially dangerous to the public, science must give way to security.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130337/ http://chronicle.com/article/Forget-About-the-Global/130337/ Some students at the University of Delaware are concentrating their efforts closer to home. 

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130252/ http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Wrong-With-College/130252/ Readers weighed in on what they would do to fix the current system.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130237/ http://chronicle.com/article/Its-Time-for-the-NCAA-to-Get/130237/ As the association considers sweeping changes in college sports, two experts offer ideas to put the focus on what is best for students rather than corporate interests.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130245/ http://chronicle.com/article/Forget-Executives-the-AAUP/130245/ Our brightest future will not be realized by executives in central offices. It will be realized by professors taking leadership to redirect public policy.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130185/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tenures-Dirty-Little-Secret/130185/ Contingent faculty are toiling at low pay to subsidize the security of tenured professors who don't necessarily do a better job.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130183/ http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Letting-High-School/130183/ When our best students "place out" of general-education classes, they're missing the point of college.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130179/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lets-Improve-Learning-OK/130179/ A genuine theory of change would be grounded in knowledge about how students learn, and in the best way to put that knowledge to work.

]]> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130127/ http://chronicle.com/article/Sometimes-Its-Necessary-to/130127/ A death in Florida shows the need for penalties to be widened in cases of college hazing. Without willing victims, the practice could not endure.

]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:40:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130080/ http://chronicle.com/article/Share-Your-Views-on-College/130080/ How can colleges preserve athletics without exploitation? We invited readers to answer a few questions—and to pose some of their own.

]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:06:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130057/ http://chronicle.com/article/Kiss-the-BCS-Goodbye/130057/ The system is a relic of ancient history and is now one of the reasons behind a continuing battle among the conferences.

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