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Smart Ways to Navigate College and Beyond

USAMonday, December 1, 2025
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Hacking College

  • Focus: Maximizing your college experience
  • Key Idea: Tailor your education to your interests, not just your major
  • Purpose: A guide to making college work for you

What Can I Get Out Of This?

  • Author: A professor sharing his teaching experience
  • Key Idea: Literature can foster understanding among people
  • Purpose: Highlights the impact of effective teaching

Policing Higher Education

  • Focus: Threats to academic freedom
  • Key Idea: Governments and external forces are trying to control campuses
  • Purpose: Universities must defend their independence

Doctored

  • Focus: Issues in Alzheimer's research
  • Key Idea: Exposes fake data in research and the importance of questioning scientific claims
  • Purpose: A whistleblower's story of uncovering research fraud

The War on Tenure

  • Focus: Importance of job security for professors
  • Key Idea: Tenure protects academic freedom and is under attack
  • Purpose: Suggests ways to improve tenure without abolishing it

Dream School

  • Focus: Finding the right college
  • Key Idea: Busts myths about admissions and offers practical tips
  • Purpose: A guide for students starting their college search

The Caring University

  • Focus: Better care for college employees
  • Key Idea: Proposes changes to make campuses more supportive workplaces
  • Purpose: Advocates for better treatment of university staff

Peril and Promise

  • Focus: Challenges facing college leaders
  • Key Idea: Discusses financial, political, and social pressures
  • Purpose: Optimistic outlook on overcoming leadership challenges

Lead and Succeed

  • Focus: Advice for new graduates on leadership
  • Key Idea: Practical tips and personal stories for career starters
  • Purpose: A guide for anyone beginning their professional journey

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