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Turbulent Times for Enrollment Leaders

Peter Farrell offers a few established strategies that can help you find your students and meet your enrollment and revenue goals -- even in this unpredictable moment.

Why Online Costs Less, Not More

Robert Ubell critiques a new study on the costs of face-to-face and online higher education.

In Defense of Calvin College

While Calvin College seeks to ensure that the values that guide its teaching and scholarship will be Christian, it still encourages critical thinking, writes Michael K. Le Roy.

Taking on the Alt-Reich

Hitler's American Model: the United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman, brings into full view the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924's place in the context of Nazi theory and practice, writes Scott McLemee.

Bodies on the Gears at Middlebury

Why are freedom of speech and academic freedom so absolute for Charles Murray yet so conditional for students, asks John Patrick Leary, who writes in defense of the protesters at Middlebury College.

The Gender of Incremental Leadership

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have a similar leadership style, writes Charlie Tyson, and public reaction to it says a good deal about how our society pigeonholes women with power.

Campus Civility in a Politically Charged Era

There is a real danger should presidents, as leaders of our campuses, speak out in judgmental terms about the wisdom of a Trump administration action, argues Donald J. Farish.

Credentials, Jobs and the New Economy

Given the high dropout rates and poor job-placement rates of for-profit colleges, people often blame them for what are, in fact, labor market failures in an economy that has shifted new risks to workers, writes Tressie McMillan Cottom.