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Why do admissions professionals engage in certain practices that some people question? W. Kent Barnds provides some answers.

The onus is on policy makers to create new regulatory frameworks to support needed innovation in areas like competency-based education, writes Paul LeBlanc.

Can you name the top six challenges facing higher education -- in two minutes? Carl Strikwerda asks.

Recent studies to the contrary, most colleges and schools don't spend very much on process of ensuring students get the best education possible, write Belle S. Wheelan and Mark A. Elgart.

Too many people are backing away from the difficult challenge of placing Ph.D. holders in tenure-track positions and toward a far simpler one: taking credit for positions that degree holders are already finding for themselves, Marc Bousquet argues.

Chinese students are flooding into America to obtain their college degrees. But, Adele Barker asks, are they getting the education they have come here to receive?

Innovation cannot be taught like math, writing or even entrepreneurship, writes Deba Dutta. But it can be inculcated with the right skills, experiences and environments.