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Why does Physicist Barbie want to wear pants?

by : Natasha Holmes , Inside Higher Ed

If “femininity” and “physicist” cannot coexist even in Barbieland, how are we ever to support their coexistence in the real world, Natasha Holmes, the Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, asks in an Inside Higher Ed opinion article. “Often, women reject what is stereotypically feminine as they embrace their identities as physicists,” Holmes writes…

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The Case for a Higher Education Bailout

The financial crisis in higher education hurts all of us, writes Caroline Levine, professor of English, in an Inside Higher Ed op-ed. There’s one clear solution, she says. "Soaring tuition and crushing student debt have risen faster than inflation for decades," Levine writes in the piece. "Then came coronavirus, which has prompted massive college layoffs. The higher education bubble, we are told…

Students sit on a grass slope

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Testing Gen Z

by : Glenn C. Altschuler , Inside Higher Ed

Past generations have confronted their own crises with grit, resilience and a commitment to the greater good, writes Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, in this Inside Higher Ed article. He's confident Gen Z will do the same."Today’s students are far from self-centered, self-indulgent and fragile," he writes in the op-ed. "So far, the vast majority of…

Suman Seth

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Seth featured on Inside Higher Ed podcast

by : Doug Lederman , Inside Higher Ed

Suman Seth, associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, explains seasoning sickness in this podcast on Inside Higher Ed. As Seth explains, pprior to the 1840s people used seasoning sickness as a way to explain why people became very ill when travelling large distances and why they never got that sick again. Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history…