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As colleges embrace 15 to Finish strategies to bolster completion, we must not create a situation where part-time students become even more likely to drop out, argues Karen Stout.

A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.

Masha Fedzechkina speaks out on behalf of those scholars who have happened to work with those accused of sexual harassment.

Civic engagement and social change are not priorities of faculty members -- the very individuals responsible for inspiring, teaching and guiding our future leaders, writes Samuel J. Abrams.

College presidents today are confronting challenges that they did not create and often can’t control, writes Susan Resneck Pierce.

Jim Jump wonders if they are serving applicants and colleges as they should.

As humanists, to make an impression inside our institutions and in the outside world, we need to do a much better job of counting the support our faculty members receive to pursue their work, argues George Justice.

Scott McLemee reviews Can Government Do Anything Right? by Alasdair Roberts.