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The education secretary and her higher education commission started the right conversation, but missed some key themes, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy writes.

A colleague's question prompts Laurence Musgrove to consider the responsibilities of professors when making assignments.

Students need practical help, not deep relationships, write David C. Paris and Timothy E. Elgren.

Colleges can fend off government-mandated homogeneity only by better measuring and publicizing their own performance, John V. Lombardi writes.

Is Michael Bérubé a profiteer in the culture wars? Scott McLemee looks at his blog and his new books and the author discusses them in a podcast.

Mark Grimsley on living and working in academe -- with bipolar disorder.

Higher ed's lobbying groups want to get out in front of Margaret Spellings on need-based aid, but colleges should look inward first, says Donald E. Heller.

On the 50th anniverary of Peyton Place, Emily Toth considers what she's taught students and learned from them about the once scandalous novel.