By Julie E. Dodd. This time each year, at universities like mine, hundreds of new teaching assistants prepare to teach undergraduates for the first time. Read more...

By Sue Levine. Do you have a running voice in your head that sometimes sabotages your efforts with thoughts like these. Read more...

By Domenick Scudera. Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home has received critical raves. A musical adaptation has become a Broadway smash. Despite these successes, some students in Duke University’s incoming class refused to read Fun Home when it was placed on their recommended summer reading list. Read more...

By Adele Wolfson. An organic chemist I know tells her doctors that she is a professor of Southern literature whenever she is in the hospital. That’s because organic chemistry has come to symbolize all the irrelevant science hoops that premedical and medical students jump through on the way to becoming physicians. Read more...

By Nate Johnson. Employment and unemployment rates, much more than the number of high school graduates or other population trends -- which are important over time but very slow moving -- are the biggest factors driving enrollment for community colleges, for-profit colleges and some open-access four-year institutions. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. George Orwell opened one of his broadcasts on the BBC in the early 1940s by recounting how he’d learned history in his school days. The past, as his teachers depicted it, was “a sort of long scroll with thick black lines ruled across it at intervals,” he said. Read more...

By Kellie Bean. When I moved into administration after being a professor, a colleague who had made the same move years before told me to brace for the loss of my faculty friends. Read more...

By Pamela Brown. The Center for Community Alternatives’ report on the use of prospective students’ high school disciplinary behavior records in the college admissions review process exposes the wild, wild west that exists with high schools and their disciplinary policies. Both the school-by-school variations in reasons for suspending or expelling students and the differing methods for reporting such information understandably raise concerns about negative implications of the collection and use of such information. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Like most community colleges that enroll large numbers of low-income students, Essex County College has a serious graduation rate problem, with remedial math being a primary stumbling block. Read more...

By Jake New. Peek into most college classrooms and it’s not uncommon to find students dressed in shorts, T-shirts or sweatpants. But when the academic year begins today at Dillard University, faculty are expecting to see far more professional attire, as male students are encouraged to don suits and ties for the first day of class. Read more...