By Judith S. White. In changing times, our campuses need not only individual leaders but also a collective environment of leadership, writes Judith S. White. Read more...

By Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. Boards and presidents expect a lot from governance, and many know that they are underperforming and could and should do more. As we’ve written in the past, boards need a certain positive restlessness that keeps them striving to do better. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In Deciding What’s True, Lucas Graves traces how media outlets’ internal fact-checking has morphed into something almost antithetical: the very public evaluation of factual assertions made by politicians and other news figures, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...

By Bridget Burns. Well-meaning administrators and faculty members have put processes into place that show little awareness of the hurdles students confront, says Bridget Burns. Read more...

By Judith Shapiro. As we consider which aspects of racism we in higher education can most effectively address, we need to make our institutions ideal places for cultivating the sociological imagination, writes Judith Shapiro. Read more...

By Colin Mathews. Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...

By Jonathan A. Poritz and Jonathan Rees. Technology experts should have the academic freedom to speak on behalf of what's best for education, not just a university's bottom line, Jonathan A. Poritz and Jonathan Rees argue. Read more...

By Peter Stokes and Chris Slatter. The real obstacles to sustaining the liberal arts have to do with traditional organizational structures and curricular approaches, argue Peter Stokes and Chris Slatter. Read more...

By Vincent Tinto. Three major experiences shape student motivation to stay in college and graduate, writes Vincent Tinto. Read more...