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...
Marvin Krislov reflects on the challenges over the past decade -- and the one thing that hasn’t changed. More...
Alex Kingsbury and Michael J. Socolow outline six things academics can do to get on the same page with editors. More...
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...
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...
They won’t get us closer to an equal, open society, argues Richard Greggory Johnson III. More...
The most constructive response to Charlottesville would be for educators to make such learning central, writes Carol Geary Schneider. More...
It’s an addiction, argues Frank H. Wu, and presidents, backed by boards, have to wean themselves off this drug. More...
Nathan Kravis’s On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch From Plato to Freud examines why that piece of furniture ever entered the analytic tradition and how its efficacy and centrality have now come under scrutiny, writes Scott McLemee. More...
Congratulations are in order for all the new college students now arriving on campuses. As they prepare for the transition to college and contemplate their academic futures, their focus will turn to choosing a major. More...
Neither time or money should be wasted by requiring students to sit in large lecture halls, taking introductory-level courses from an arbitrarily-chosen bucket of courses, write Arthur "Tim" Garson Jr. and Robert C. Pianta. More...