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The federal guidance that allows colleges to share tuition dollars with contractors that help them recruit students -- as long as they provide other services, too -- conflicts with the law and should be revoked, Robert Shireman argues.

They are serious and complex problems and should not be the sole purview of our campuses’ counseling centers, write Ted Mitchell and Suzanne Ortega.

Michael Ortner defends an alternative to the SAT and ACT.

High Point University illustrates the problems with the Justice Department's approach to antitrust issues in higher education, writes Jim Jump.

At far too many institutions today, students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses, writes Robert Sedgewick.

Scott McLemee reviews Devon Powers's On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future.

Colleges and universities are not asked to report on measures that should be evident long before a student (or institution) faces the worst-case scenario, writes Barbara Damron.

In the first of a three-part series, William Kuskin describes the changes required -- administratively as well as pedagogically -- as his university built an online degree from scratch to serve hundreds of students.