By Rena Seltzer. Sonya was upset when her colleague was denied tenure at the college level despite having departmental support. She explained when I interviewed her for my book. Read more...

By Karen Costa. I have been actively texting my students for almost a year with great success. I’ve wanted to text them since I started my first professional position in higher education, nine years ago, but resistance to texting has been persistent. We are talking, after all, about much more than punching some letters into a phone. Read more...

By W. Kent Barnds. Most previous efforts to introduce transparency to college financial aid have not resulted in their intended changes. But a new policy that the White House announced this past Sunday has been described as a game changer. And it is. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Regulation stifles innovation, the complaint goes, protecting the status quo and existing institutions at the expense of alternative providers. But it's not always so. Read more...

By Josh Logue. The State University of New York at Buffalo community was reeling this week after signs saying “white only” and “black only” appeared Wednesday beside water fountains and bathrooms around campus. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Who needs the faculty? A new working paper by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, a coalition of faculty unions and other academic associations, asks that question and answers resoundingly that face time with faculty members is key to student success. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term's application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Modern States Education Alliance, an organization initially billed as an accreditor for nontraditional providers of education, is changing its focus and taking a more direct route to increasing access to higher education, its founders say. Read more...

By Anthony Welch. Extremism has long been part of higher education. The suppression of Arabic and Jewish scholars in Spain during the 15th century, the Nazi persecution of Jewish and communist intellectuals and the mass murder of scholars in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge, are potent reminders of the tyranny of intolerance. Read more...