By John Fea. John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos. Read more...

By Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn takes issue with arguments that the erosion of faculty members' participation in shared governance is entirely due to forces beyond their control. Read more...

By Leonard Cassuto. When Oscar Wilde celebrated color that was “unspoiled by meaning,” he wasn’t looking at the graph of advertised job openings in the humanities over the past 15 years. That graph contains meaning that we can’t afford to turn away from. It shows the colors of difficult truths. Read more...

By Megan Doney. A shooting at a college can damage one's sense of identity, assumptions about safety andbeliefs about the holiness of education, writes Megan Doney. Read more...

By David Galef. Among twenty time-honored subjects,
The only moving thing in the humanities
Is the Communications major. Read more...

By Paul T. Corrigan. Paul T. Corrigan urges professors to educate their students about how the value and power of textbooks can endure long after graduation. Read more...

By Jiri Hulcr. The administration and academic leadership of colleges and universities need to communicate far more effectively about science and its importance to the world outside academe, argues Jiri Hulcr. Read more...

By John Schlueter. Whether we can actually teach students critical-thinking skills is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood issues in higher education today, argues John Schlueter. Read more...

By Sanford J. Ungar. A stint at a liberal arts college as the cure for economic hardship and social despair? As a way out of poverty and dead-end, low-wage employment. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. The mythological creature called the lamia is something like a hybrid of mermaid and vampire: a beautiful woman from the waist up, atop a serpent’s body, driven by an unwholesome appetite. Read more...