The emerging model of openly licensed educational content makes pedagogical as well as financial sense for today’s higher education market, fostering inclusivity and knocking down the wall between writer and reader, writes Brian Jacobs. More...

The emphasis on the uniqueness of each incoming class in annual lists of student worldviews perpetuates the assumption that the college population is mainly composed of recent high school graduates, writes Hollis Phelps. More...

A professor considers how he should advise such a student applying to Ph.D. programs in a STEM field. More...

Scott McLemee highlights a half dozen catchphrases that have significantly overstayed their welcome.
Occasionally an expression will enter heavy use -- or misuse, as the case may be -- and then just sit there in public discourse like the last stupefied and uninvited guest at a party: impervious to hints and deaf to grumbling, repeating itself endlessly, laughing at its own wit and making a bit less sense each time. More...

Rather than withdraw from the Middle East and North Africa, colleges should encourage American students to study abroad in stable countries within the Arab world. More...

A horizontal approach to open educational resources reaches the most students in the quickest way possible, writes Daniel Williamson. More...

Four scholars describe what institutions can do -- and should not do -- to enhance the well-mentored undergraduate experience. More...

Colleges should reach out to high schools to help them identify students who can guide their peers on the path to higher education, writes Keith Frome. More...

We should not abandon remedial education and accelerate people who don’t know the basics, argues John Almy. More...

Senior administrators seem to be required to be busy at all times, and that has created the unfortunate situation where they are often isolated from faculty and staff members, argues Thomas J. Pfaff. More...