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For all the frustrations students sometimes give their professors, Christopher Phelps writes of the way some of them inspire.

Leonard V. Kaplan, a faculty member who was ensnared in a controversy over remarks he says were misreported, reflects on the larger issues for academe raised by the fracas.

The colleges considering leaving the NCAA’s nonscholarship competitive level risk hurting their institutions and turning off students, W. Kent Barnds writes.

An unfilmable novel about literary life hits the cineplex. Scott McLemee interviews the author.

Debra Carney considers the lessons of coaching students in Cambodia and the United States.

If in the name of accountability, higher education is forced to focus obsessively on reducing expenses, the results won't yield the kind of institutions Americans want and need, writes William G. Durden.

Having received readers' reports on her manuscripts and contributed to those for others, Caroline Levine writes about why she imposed a rule on herself.

Daniel Barwick challenges the assumption that small is always best in the college classroom.