By Rick Seltzer. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education should not close, merge or spin off any of its 14 state-owned universities, according to a much-awaited set of consultants’ recommendations presented to its Board of Governors Wednesday. More...
Coming to campus to teach online
Just because professors who teach online don't have to be physically on campus doesn't mean they shouldn't be, writes Penelope Adams Moon. More...
Let’s Get up Off Our Knees and Talk
Faculty members who teach both undergraduate and graduate students must go beyond symbolic protests and find a better way to grapple with complex social issues, writes Leslie P. Henderson. More...
Threat Level Normal
In context this is one of many little details evoking a mood of anomie (of disintegration, personal and cultural) with a hint of the Manson family somewhere upwind, performing its psychedelic-apocalyptic rituals to prepare for whatever the Beatles have commanded of them. More...
College, Democracy and Social Media Empires
The absence of codes and regulations too often leads social media users to act on their worst instincts, writes Seamus Carey, who recommends holding social media companies accountable for removing and preventing hate speech. More...
The Life-Shaping Power of Higher Education
Marvin Krislov reflects on the challenges over the past decade -- and the one thing that hasn’t changed. More...
How To Pitch Journalists More Successfully
Alex Kingsbury and Michael J. Socolow outline six things academics can do to get on the same page with editors. More...
Dampening Innovation, One Institution at a Time
The recommended penalties placed on Western Governors University will have a dampening effect on any institution that is pursuing new or modified learning models, argues Justin Draeger. More...
Want to Enhance Humanities Career Outcomes? Engage the Faculty
The job of preparing students for the workplace can’t be left to career services offices alone. Professors are key, Emily J. Levine and Nicole Hall argue. More...
The Trouble with Some LGBT-Exclusive Campus Spaces
They won’t get us closer to an equal, open society, argues Richard Greggory Johnson III. More...