In trying to get her students to care about writing, Rachel Wagner decided that she had to get them to care about editing. More...

Career centers across the country struggle with last-minute job searchers -- i.e., seniors and graduate and postdoctoral trainees in their final quarter or semester who need jobs right away. More...

Our academic freedom may be at stake, writes Julie Kim, if most of our paycheck is controlled by a hospital that is affiliated with but not owned by the institution. More...

Fans and foes of letting students use laptops and phones in class hold fervent views. Jordan Troisi and Aaron Richmond suggest acting based on research instead -- and offer recommendations. More...

Despite all the changes going on outside campuses -- and often, in fact, because of them -- our traditional educational practices have never been more important, writes Michael S. Roth. More...

Scott McLemee reviews Jeffrey Melnick's Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family. More...

Their main shortcoming is in the false assurance they offer colleges and universities, argues Sigal Ben-Porath. More...

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...

College credentialing and degree inflation tend to serve the needs of employers, not students, write Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison. More...

We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik. More...