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Questioning the Textbook Rep Culture

Publishers’ sales teams can freely visit professors on many campuses. Steven J. Bell asks, shouldn't academic librarians promoting alternatives have easy access to the faculty, too?

The Silence Is Deafening

Institutional priorities shouldn't supersede the needs of students and their trust in their faculty members and universities, argues Kendrick Davis, in the wake of questionable behavior by a former University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor.

An Open Letter to College-Bound Students and Their Parents

A group of enrollment managers offers advice.

Ethical College Admissions: The Real Victims

Felicity Huffman and the other parents ignored key facts about the admissions process, writes Jim Jump.

Claiming the Front Porch

Rather than focusing on intercollegiate athletics, higher education should use the analogy to frame a conversation about academic outreach and extension, argues Daniel J. Ennis.

Evaluating the Genuine Fake

Scott McLemee reviews Lydia Pyne's Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff.

We Need to Talk About Authorship Abuse

The academic community must move beyond compliance with standards and toward the cultivation of a greater sense of ethical responsibility, argue A. Susan Jurow and Jordan Jurow.

The Affordable Online Degree Emerges

William Kuskin on what we can learn from the Rolling Stones about the new genre of scaled education.