When you want to make a difference in higher education, pivotal opportunities for leadership can occur all around you, writes Judith S. White, who provides advice for helping prepare for them. More...
#metoo in the Meantime
Entire systems must be fixed, but for now, we can all take some small, immediate steps to improve the work environment for our female colleagues, writes Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt. More...
A Risky Future on College Sports Betting
The Supreme Court's decision permitting sports gambling creates a slew of issues for colleges, sports administrators and the NCAA, David Welch Suggs Jr. says. More...
Why I Teach 'Lolita'
Anne Dwyer's students questioned the idea of reading the novel, even in a course on Nabokov. Here is her explanation of why the work should be taught. More...
Overreacting to College Student Suicide?
Promoting reasonable expectations for suicide prevention will help everyone, write Paul D. Polychronis and Peter F. Lake. More...
Portrait of a Puritanical Knucklehead
The struggle between piety and libido in the age of mechanical reproduction is at the core of Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock, writes Scott McLemee. More...
Let's End Commencement
If nothing else, we should offer a deeper and more meaningful connection to our institutions than sitting for hours in a sports arena, waiting to hear one's name called, argues Jonathan Beecher Field. More...
Pay What You Want
Scott McLemee explores a few -- perhaps somewhat surprising -- new pricing models for books and journals. More...
The Cat in the Acknowledgments Page
Injunctions against excessive nonacademic acknowledgments are not new, explains Richard Hughes Gibson. More...
Higher Ed’s Role in Addressing School Violence
Across the nation, high school students are now selecting the colleges and universities where they will spend the next formative chapter of their lives. They are making their choices against a backdrop of unprecedented public attention to gun violence, thanks to a bold and galvanizing uprising that they themselves have led. While they are high school students today, they will be college students next. Higher education has to be ready. More...