It stands to reason that a for-profit consultant would advocate that higher education facilitate student consent to commercial applications “Muy Loco Parentis: How ‘Freakouts’ Over Student Privacy Hamper Innovation,” The Chronicle, February 2). There is money to be made in it. More...

I am not at all surprised that there is still backlash against feminism in the academy, though I’ll admit to being delighted by the irony that Allen Frantzen, the scholar in question in the recent article “Prominent Medieval Scholar’s Blog on ‘Feminist Fog’ Sparks an Uproar,” (The Chronicle, January 22) is a medievalist. More...

Attending college tuition-free is a reality today for 90 percent of City University of New York community-college students and for more than 66 percent of all full-time CUNY college students in baccalaureate and associate degree programs. For these mostly low-income students, low tuition, federal and state financial aid, and federal tax credits make possible a quality college education. More...

By Michael Feldstein. Have you ever witnessed a Ferpa freakout? Maybe you’ve had one yourself, as you worried about whether trying a new digital tool in class might violate the federal law that protects student privacy. More...

By Heather Merrill and Donald Carter. In the summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led the Mississippi Summer Project, to bring 1,000 black and white students from the northern United States to help register black Americans to vote, and to teach them something about an American history in which they were central protagonists. The students would spend several months living with black families in rural Mississippi, a breeding ground of violence and resistance to racial equality. More...

By Marie K. Shanahan. The cry of college students demanding "safe spaces" to protect themselves from speech that could harm their sensitivities doesn’t confound me. I secretly wished for a safe space myself during my first year of teaching. More...

By Joseph E. Aoun. A report this month from the World Economic Forum says 5.1 million jobs could be lost over the next five years because of automation. In 2013 a study from the University of Oxford found that about 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at risk from automation. More...

By Steven C. Bahls. When Dan Lee, a senior member of my college’s religion department, asked me to team teach his undergraduate seminar, "Individual Rights and the Common Good," I was hesitant. More...

By Anthony C. Robinson. Teaching an online course that 49,000 students have signed up for presents an unprecedented challenge when it comes to an important aspect of instruction: knowing your audience. More...

By Paul H. Robinson. Debate grows over the use of "yes means yes" as a sexual-consent policy on college campuses. As opposed to "no means no," which directs sexual initiators to halt their advances if the other person struggles or says to stop, "yes means yes" or "affirmative consent" states that sexual initiators have to actually get consent from the other person before proceeding to the next step. More...