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Colleges need to harness their own research expertise to focus on how students advance or fail to do so, writes Diana Chapman Walsh.

Challenging economic times require us to think about how educators spend, in the short term and the long term, writes Alexandra W. Logue.

A group of academics is reaching the public with a mix of scholarship, memoir and journalism that might be seen as a movement, writes Richard Greenwald.

A new book considers the international policy implications of a siege by the cannibalistic undead. Scott McLemee aims for the head.

Educators shouldn't be so quick to embrace a critique of colleges that is based on a narrow testing tool, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Academic scandals involving athletes have been a predictable outcome of the 2003 elimination of minimum requirements for freshmen, Gerald S. Gurney argues.

Economic and social factors are reshaping the market for transfer students, and colleges must better understand who they are and what motivates them, writes Marc Cutright.

With vendors buying and selling the words that supposedly got students in, it's time to admit that these words aren't typically decisive, and that may be a good thing, writes Scott Anderson.