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It's best to teach it with a healthy dose of self-awareness about what sort of shifty, sometimes shady, field it is, writes Christopher Schaberg.

As universities face pressure to demonstrate their value, engaged scholarship is more important than ever, Diana Brazzell writes.

Thomas Corbett, a former for-profit college executive, speaks out against plans by the U.S. Department of Education to weaken requirements for oversight of college quality.

The explanations for the changes don't make a lot of sense, writes Jim Jump.

The racism of old yearbooks at the University of Richmond is real and still creates pain, writes Eric Joy Denise. But the university is studying and learning from the bigotry of its past.

It's time to end any favoritism for alumni children in admissions, writes R. Guru Singh.

Colleges may be facing pressure to separate their credentialed learning from their other offerings, Ryan Craig writes. Our work-force development system, meanwhile, could learn a thing or two from higher education.

Scott McLemee reviews some of the books now being published by university presses, many of which seem to predict our world in the upcoming decade.