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Saving Public Higher Ed

Joseph E. Aoun argues that all parties in higher education -- including leaders of private universities like his -- suffer when state colleges struggle financially.

Mutual Aid Society

Did humanity evolve with selfish genes? Scott McLemee looks into an alternative theory

Helping Women in 100-Hour Couples

Colleges need to embrace specific policies and also to promote flexibility if they want to recruit and retain female faculty members, write Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy.

In Praise of 'Community'

The much anticipated premiere of “Community,” the NBC sitcom many community college faculty and administrators feared would damage the already...

Talking the Talk, Then Walking the Walk

Robert Connor alienated his peers when he began using the language of assessment a decade ago, but the shift in discourse has taken hold, he argues.

Sleepless in Academic Affairs

To get through today's economic travails and what's to come, writes Jeff Abernathy, college administrators -- working closely with their faculties -- must try things they've never done before.

The King of Pompeii

Irving Kristol was the godfather of neoconservatism. Scott McLemee goes to the mattresses.

Resist the Pedagagogical Far Right

Robert J. Nash offers principles for putting students -- not prestige or politics -- at the center of higher education.