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Higher education institutions must work to bolster the security of their research without sacrificing openness and collaboration, write Peter McPherson and Mary Sue Coleman.

Scott McLemee continues his review of Catherine Lyall's Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers.

The state authorization fiasco in California is the sort of unintended consequence that can occur when policy makers impose rules only on one sector of higher education, writes Steve Gunderson.

Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

It is not permissible to debate in some academic parlor game the lives of people who are oppressed and murdered, writes Mark Lance.

George Washington U's plan to shrink is worth watching, writes Jim Jump.

Perhaps it is time for college and university governing boards to consider whether current and future students should have to pay for failed presidencies, argue James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde.

Scott McLemee reviews Catherine Lyall's Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers.