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To better prepare undergraduates for life’s complexities, place tragedy front and center in humanities classes. In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal 1872 study of the origins and significance of Greek tragedy, the German philosopher called for the rebirth of tragic art to reawaken the profound existential insights and revitalizing energies that the ancient Greek tragedies once provided.

Critical reflections on some of higher ed’s hottest topics. Here, I’d like to reflect on some recent articles in the higher ed press.

A new study finds senior staff are more likely to provide constructive feedback and coaching to junior staff when the juniors are in the same office and/or when

To address the legacies of slavery and colonialism, read Maryse Condé and Frantz Fanon now. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 2016). Other past winners include Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951), Ivo Andric (1961), Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903), José Echegaray (1904), Odysseus Elytis (1979), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908), Paul Heyse (1910), Selma Lagerlöf (1909), Halldór Laxness (1955), Henrik Pontoppidan (1917), and Henrik Sienkiewicz (1905). Not recipients that you’d...