While most believe the contrary, some people understand that plagiarism is not necessarily deceitful or deserving censure, writesJennifer A. Mott-Smith. More...

Bill Mahon describes a decade of inaccurate emergency communications on campuses and provides advice on how to avoid these situations going forward. More...

Scott McLemee has found most recently published books on digital discourse -- memes, tweeting and other modes of contemporary communication -- hard to keep reading. The exception is Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner’s The Ambivalent Internet. More...

As Memorial Day nears, Wick Sloane celebrates Evergreen State College’s success in enrolling and graduating veterans. More...

Christopher Schaberg explores what, if anything, academe can do about the distinct knots of negativity that airports have become known for. More...

An essential task of the university is to provide a space where diverse points of view can be debated, argue five Distinguished Professors at the City University of New York, who support Linda Sarsour's right to deliver next week's commencement address. More...

The administration’s recently released budget proposal, containing systematic and unfounded cuts to important education programs, will destabilize and destroy a system that is meant to help our students, argue Adriano Espaillat, Shaun Abreu and Amber Moorer. More...

Scott McLemee highlights some of the new books coming out this fall and winter that are likely to be of general or topical appeal. More...

Recent government policies threaten to stall any improvement in the educational and career outcomes of Latino students and perhaps even push our country backward, argues Amilcar Guzman. More...

Jeff Vande Zande learned firsthand how the phrase can be the kiss of death to innovation, change and growth -- and then experienced the results of a very different approach. More...