A junior professor discusses how you can best use the gap between spring and fall semesters. More...
The Need for a Recovery of the Humanities
To recover the trust of students and their families, Michael S. Roth writes, we must overcome our cultivated insularity.
As the academic year concludes, I find myself looking forward to a break from the onslaught of bad news about higher education in general and the humanities in particular. Another liberal arts college is forced to close for financial reasons; another university humanities program is cut back; a superrich university floats the idea of reducing its support for book publication. More...
In the Valley of the Shadow of Galt
Scott McLemee reviews Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan. More...
The Importance of Cultivating Curiosity
After graduation, students often don't apply this intellectual asset to their careers, even though satisfying job choices are tightly correlated with it, writes Mike O'Connor. More...
The Untapped Potential of Making and Makerspaces
Charles M. Schweik describes four ways higher education could make much more of such educational opportunities. More...
Ethical College Admissions: Presidents as Admission Officers
Northwestern's leader may know more about admissions than many other presidents, writes Jim Jump, but there are still ethical issues raised by his making hundreds of admissions decisions. More...
A Gen Z Guide to Inclusivity
Shawna Shapiro explores the results of interviews with dozens of students on the topic and some of the surprises she encountered. More...
This Long Conversation
Scott McLemee reviews Jenifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. More...
What I Learned From Designing and Developing E-Learning
Sometimes my designs worked and sometimes they did not. I learned what participants liked and what they did not like through course evaluations and from talk around the office. The true results, however, showed on the job. It didn’t take long for me to realize that a decent e-learning program requires more than a set of clickable PowerPoint slides. More...
Three Innovators Changing The Education Landscape Today
America is the land of innovation, leading the world in technology, art and industry — yet we still have a 20th-century educational system. Our schools are stifled by regulatory overload, making it difficult to bring needed change to outdated ways of doing things. More...