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College presidents and trustees must step up if American higher education is to meet the productivity and affordability challenges ahead, writes Larry A. Isaak.

Student excitement suggests that it's time for colleges to think not just about civic engagement, but about the curriculum in American history and politics, writes Richard M. Freeland.

Sorry men, writes Mary Hatcher-Skeers, the gender equity problem in science has not been solved.

Revamp the financial aid system? Robert Shireman says the Education Department might focus its energy in its last days on a less-ambitious but helpful goal: better URLs for its Web sites.

Newspapers keep abandoning any responsibility toward books. Scott McLemee looks back at print culture....

William Major writes that it's time to stop complaining about how students write, and to get more professors in the classroom.

Philosophers offer views -- ethical and practical -- on whether older scholars should be making room for new Ph.D.'s.

For the sake of students, Congress should require legislatures to maintain their funding of higher education, F. King Alexander writes.