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Texas Colleges Brave Harvey

Hurricane prompts evacuations, as well as delays in move-in days and starts of academic years for colleges along the Gulf Coast and in Houston area.

The Campus Buildings Name Game: Unfinished Business

Decisions to remove the names of controversial people from campus buildings show that the heritage of higher education is complex and even conflicting in its symbols and celebrations, writes John Thelin.

Carbon Neutral Quickly

Middlebury meets a tight deadline for going carbon neutral in part by using credits from forest preservation.

Academics as Suburbanites

The fact that the relationship between higher education institutions and their faculties can be like that of cities and their commuters illuminates the cultural problems on many campuses.
Opinion

Smartphones Can't Replace Libraries

Academic libraries aren’t just expensive “vanity projects” but rather a vital part of the higher education ecosystem, argue Julie Todaro and Irene M. H. Herold.

Fixing Capacity With Better Class Scheduling

Colleges are re-examining their student enrollment data to better understand how courses are scheduled in an effort to fix capacity problems.
Opinion

Empowering Change Makers

Now is the time to identify how to inspire young people to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st century, writes the White House's Tom Kalil.

Hurricane Damage and Recovery

Flagler flooded; students at many campuses are evacuated; many colleges in region hit by Hurricane Matthew will remain closed Monday.