Scott McLemee reviews Willful: How We Choose What We Do by Richard Robb. More...

The federal guidance that allows colleges to share tuition dollars with contractors that help them recruit students -- as long as they provide other services, too -- conflicts with the law and should be revoked, Robert Shireman argues. More...

If we teach students to see racism as an idea that's expressed through behaviors, institutions and cultures rather than an immutable character trait, we free them to see things more accurately and with more openness to change, argues Cyndi Kernahan. More...

Scott McLemee reviews Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding by Bobby Duffy. More...

Robert Massa explains a new attempt to define character in the admissions process. More...

To halt the crisis in the humanities, Clifford Siskin and William Warner write, we must rethink our classification system. More...

They are serious and complex problems and should not be the sole purview of our campuses’ counseling centers, write Ted Mitchell and Suzanne Ortega. More...

High Point University illustrates the problems with the Justice Department's approach to antitrust issues in higher education, writes Jim Jump. More...

About 20 years ago, while in my 20s and experiencing a bit of an existential crisis, I read Plato’s Apology for the first time. Plato’s portrayal of Socrates spoke to me in a way that possibly no other piece of literature ever had. More...

At far too many institutions today, students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses, writes Robert Sedgewick. More...