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A researcher set out to interview Asian-Americans on the front lines of the debate about race-conscious affirmative action in higher education. What she found is that the policy is poorly understood.
First-generation college students earn substantially less than their peers whose parents went to college, new research shows.
Universities should very rarely prevent controversial speakers from spreading their message.
The brain drain is coming – it has to be stopped.
Research shows student-athletes spend triple the amount of time on sports as on academics, raising questions about whether they actually benefit from a college education, a sociology professor argues.
Undergraduate statistics degrees have tripled in the past decade. Is ‘statistician’ really the sexy new job?
University rankings must include quality teaching and indicators that address inequality as measuring tools.
Yet the money spent on student loans, Pell Grants and funding for research is not generally keeping pace with the demand for higher ed.
College rankings are set up to make you believe one college is better than another. But a closer look reveals college rankings may be measuring something entirely different.
Sexual harassment and violence are widespread in universities, and in everyday life. For that to change, the culture has to first.
Working with African universities to effectively become research-intensive could transform sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education landscape.
New research by sociologist Ted Thornhill shows that black students who indicate they plan to fight for racial justice are more likely to be ignored by white admissions counselors.
Labor Day is an excellent time for college instructors to commit to teaching students to take an interdisciplinary approach to solving the world’s toughest problems, three professors argue.
On the fourth era of business schools and the urgency of reinventing them.
Toppling statues devoted to Confederate soldiers may be a joyous moment for protesters who fight white supremacy, but after the statues fall, structural racism remains, a scholar on slavery argues.
Research shows that young adults who don’t exercise can expect an average eight kilograms of extra fat on their body by 28 years of age.
Although textbooks are often said to be on their way out, their usefulness in the transmission of knowledge suggest textbooks won’t be obsolete anytime soon, the author of a book on textbooks argues.
An English and economics professor explain why America’s college textbook industry might undergo radical change that makes books more affordable, similar to what happened in medieval times.
Universities need to work with staff, students and the community to ensure their health policies are effective.
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Producer, Social and Political Sciences Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Director, Policy Impact, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
