Scott McLemee reviews Jeffrey Melnick's Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family. More...
Against Endorsing the Chicago Principles
Their main shortcoming is in the false assurance they offer colleges and universities, argues Sigal Ben-Porath. More...
Against the New Normal
In advance of International Human Rights Day, Scott McLemee reviews Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky. More...
When College Degrees Impede Opportunity
College credentialing and degree inflation tend to serve the needs of employers, not students, write Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison. More...
College and Beginning Afresh
We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik. More...
Ethical College Admissions: A Tragedy
Jim Jump considers the reports of abuse and application fraud by a private school in Louisiana that has been highly praised. More...
Ethical College Admissions: After the Applications Are In
Ethical choices don't go away at this stage in the process, especially if an applicant does something that may hurt his or her chances, writes Jim Jump. More...
Truth, Facts and Liberal Education in a 'Post-Truth' Era
Colleges and universities must ensure that students know not only how to exercise intellectual skills but also that certain things are so, writes Grant Cornwell. More...
Online Learning: A 2-Voiced Case for Ambivalence
Wading into the rip currents of online learning evangelism and countersurging cries of alarm about the corporatization of higher ed, Steve Mentz and Christopher Schaberg seek steady footing. More...
How MOOC Collaboration Could Aid On-Campus Teaching and Learning
Creating a sharing economy for MOOC content among universities in open online consortiums wouldn’t be simple but could have enormous benefits for those institutions and others, Daniel Seaton writes. More...