By Michael Klein. Michael Klein challenges Dean Dad's assertion that the state's higher ed system is failing its residents. Read more...

By Linda B. Nilson. While we in higher education keep using it, our grading system is broken, argues Linda B. Nilson, and she offers some concrete ways to fix it. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. Celebrate or hate it as you will, writes Scott McLemee, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort. Read more...

By Scott McLemee. In a new memoir, the brother of the Unabomber tries to make sense of his own past in the context of acts of violence utterly disconnected from his own memories, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Florida's governor has called public university presidents to a meeting to ask why they can't be sure graduates in their most popular majors will all be employed. His prime target is psychology. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Private colleges found a consortium to collectively negotiate with companies that develop enterprise resource planning software. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Private colleges found a consortium to collectively negotiate with companies that develop enterprise resource planning software. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. City College of San Francisco for years has been facing an accreditation crisis linked to its finances, and the accreditation woes may have contributed to a new fiscal management problem. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Wheaton of Illinois is seeking to fire a professor for violating its statement of faith. Conflict draws attention to such statements, and renews debate on whether they are compatible with academic freedom. Read more...