By Brianne Jaquette. In high school I was a majorette, and while that has little bearing on my life right now, I was reminded of it when I read this piece by Anne Curzan on the Lingua Franca blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education. More...

By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. It’s not every day that I get to have this type of a mesmerizing experience through the course of my work. Of course students reading essays or explaining their experiments are often captivating. Their gripping stories of how they overcome serious obstacles to succeed in college sometimes bring me to tears. More...

By Gwendolyn Beetham. Right now there is a debate in the NY Times on the cost of public higher education with some, including Sara Goldrick-Rab, arguing that public higher education should be universal and free. Amongst Goldrick-Rab’s arguments is that free universal education would help students from lower socio-economic backgrounds focus on learning. More...

By Mary Churchill. When I saw the map in the New York Times this week, I felt compelled to find out where I had lived from birth to five. I knew that I had lived in a trailer park near Dort Highway and that I had lived on Mary Drive. More...