Academics need to reach across political and ideological divides to bring their research expertise to bear on the policy issues of the day, writes Linda Stamato. More...

Claire D. Clark’s The Recovery Revolution traces the history of therapies that help drug users recover from addiction, sometimes with contradictory and controversial practices, Scott McLemee writes. More...

Our nation needs strong teachers in every math and science classroom, writes E. Gordon Gee, but too few STEM experts choose to apply their talents to this important career path. More...

Adults are coming to community colleges seeking a different approach to education, says Jim Jacobs, and that will require institutions to pay attention to a few important design features. More...

The radical move might be to quit, writes Claire B. Potter.
Recently I stumbled across an article in The New York Times about my favorite topic: online academic rage -- and whether it spikes among those frustrated by the struggle to find a tenure-stream job. More...

Colleges shouldn’t deem certain speech to be off-limits, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.
For the past year, colleges and universities have found themselves wrestling with a philosophical issue: speech. More...

Policies that punish student protesters reinforce institutionalized white supremacy, argues Charles H. F. Davis III. More...

University crackdowns on speech hurt everyone, writes Christopher Newfield, and renew a false, decades-old depiction of campuses as overrun by censorious radicals. More...

It protects scientists and advances the discovery of promising treatments that can improve the lives of both people and animals, writes Mar Sanchez. More...

Claiming that academics are failing to engage with the general public is intellectual laziness at best and anti-intellectual posturing at worst, argues Adam Kotsko. More...