Free, accessible curricular materials may have many benefits for students. But the research conducted so far hasn't delivered the required proof yet, Regan Gurung writes. More...

Alan R. Townsend describes why he left a top research university to help lead a small liberal arts college. More...

While teaching a course on medieval love, a professor finds himself having a very different response to the material than his students. More...

The University of California, Los Angeles, is right to do so, argues Carmen Mitchell, and other institutions would be smart to follow suit. More...

College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams. More...

Scott McLemee reviews Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border by Ieva Jusionyte. More...

Many television series today employ technical advisers to review scripts for realism. That’s not a new phenomenon. The character actor George Kennedy, best known for his performances in Cool Hand Luke and the Naked Gun movies, supposedly got his show-business start in the 1950s as a technical adviser for the comedy Sergeant Bilko. More...

Whatever the judge rules, we have seen the impact of wealth, alumni connections and athletic skill in elite college admissions, writes Nicholas Soodik. More...

Highly selective colleges enroll modestly more veterans. And 100 higher ed leaders gather in Washington this week to keep veteran enrollments rising. That's progress, right? Wick Sloane asks. More...

Every now and then, colleges make the application process easier for students, but like one-hit wonder musical groups, they don't build on their momentum, writes Jim Jump. More...