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Completion Rates in Context

Holding community colleges accountable for students' degree progress is appropriate -- but only if we use the right measures, argues Craig Clagett.

Why Occupy Colleges?

Students have good reason to express anger and to cry out for help, writes John Pelletier.

Online Higher Education's Individualist Fallacy

Champions of distance learning ignore the role that institutional culture and the classroom dynamic play in how people learn, writes Johann Neem.

New Higher Education Model

With state support eroding, public colleges and universities should go online to expand the reach of their academic programs, Jeb Bush and Jim Hunt argue.

A Little History of Philosophy

Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.

Hofstadter's 'Lost' Book

Ben Hufbauer reflects on how a textbook changed the genre, the way the public viewed American history and the way he shaped his career.

Lost Academic Freedom

In two cases involving controversial professors, Northwestern has abandoned key principles, writes John K. Wilson.

Is the Bloom Off the Rose?

For-profit colleges have been innovators, but excesses by some of them have put the sector's success at risk, write Terry Connelly and Dan Angel.