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High-profile cases of sexual harassment have dominated the media, social and otherwise. Scott McLemee comments on a new book of essays that might push the discussion forward.

Measuring student outcomes is ultimately about trying to improve teaching and learning, and professors should both support and lead such efforts, writes Kate Drezek McConnell.

William G. Durden offers a practical proposal for reinventing liberal arts education.

Jim Jump reviews the way college admissions officials have responded to the tragic killings at a Florida high school.

Nicholas Soodik asks why so many colleges are vague or confusing in their letters to accepted applicants about financial aid eligibility.

Professors and teachers should not ever be expected to carry firearms to police their classrooms, writes Joshua Grubbs, a faculty member who is also a gun owner.

Almost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view.

Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.