Filter & Sort
From Crisis to Composition
Jessica Yood went back to school to take a class on first-year writing and came away with a new take on the reform of general-composition courses.
Identity and Leadership
If a college reduces its students to mere statistics, its fundamental purpose will be lost, writes Seamus Carey, who was a candidate to head Mount St. Mary's University before Simon Newman became president.
The Art of the Swindle
You may think of yourself as smart, a good judge of character and destined for a life better than the one you have -- but someone appealing to those feelings can end up with all your money and no known forwarding address. Scott McLemee explains.
The Economy of Cheating
Colleges and universities may try to address academic cheating as a moral or pedagogical problem, but it's really about something entirely different, argues Carol Poster.
Opinion
Donald Trump and the Value of College
The candidate's support comes disproportionately from those without bachelor's degrees -- but that may say more about the failure than the success of our higher education system, writes Ryan Craig.
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t
Imagine that you have to come to a mutually acceptable decision with competing interests, fast, in a group and under the spotlight. Being a trustee is one tough job, argue Cathy Trower and Peter Eckel.
The Academy in Peril?
If politicians are allowed to dictate who works in our colleges and universities, and thus whose voices get heard when we discuss the world and its inhabitants, we can't expect the results to be positive, argues William Bradley.
Accounting for Scholarship
A recent report on the cost of publishing monographs should be of some interest to many people who buy, read and/or write scholarly books, says Scott McLemee.