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Are dwindling support for the humanities and a lack of diversity in higher education two separate issues, asks Christine Henseler, or are they, in fact, closely intertwined?

Although colleges and universities have spent tens of millions of dollars on complex emergency communications systems to try to make campuses safer, the technology has serious limitations, warns Bill Mahon.

Mike Spivey describes his experience serving as the conservative on his college’s postelection panel.

In a democracy, students need to learn to live with a high tolerance for ambiguity, writes José Antonio Bowen.

In Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Hotel, author Christopher P. Dum portrays not only inescapable squalor but also efforts to create order in seriously damaged lives, writes Scott McLemee.

We in higher education must embrace a new era in which people feel their opinions truly matter, argues Brandon Busteed.

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.

Given adequate funding, higher education is capable of playing a much greater role in helping displaced people retain their dignity and contribute to the future, argues Richard Romano.