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With $100 million to win, Wick Sloane urges college leaders at this week’s American Council on Education annual meeting to work on graduating more low-income students and ending poverty. Yes, merely that.

The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday. Scott McLemee takes him out of the poststructuralist pigeonhole.

Our own experiences in unfamiliar environments can help us appreciate the kinds of sustained support our students need, writes Elizabeth H. Simmons.

Face-to-face instruction is superior in so many ways, writes Christopher Schaberg.

Amanda O. M. Jackson's view of education's inability to work as an equalizer in our society became more deeply entrenched after spending two weeks behind the wheel.

Colleges may have motives to be inconsistent in admissions decisions, but high school counselors rely on some degree of consistency, writes Jim Jump.

It's time to move away from absolutist positions for or against, write Don Hossler, Jerry Lucido and Emily Chung.

Judith Shapiro reflects on the upsides and downsides of the current vogue of looking up one's DNA to find out who one "really is."