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Retention Matters

Those freshmen who don't come back aren't just an issue for public institutions, but are a key factor for privates as well, writes Bryan Matthews.

Do Professors Matter?

The movement to minimize the faculty role in higher education needs to be resisted, in part by explaining to the public why the role is crucial, writes Peter Katopes.

The Museum at the Heart of the Academy

Universities must work harder to make their galleries key to the educational experience, but getting rid of them is shortsighted and bad for the institutions and their students, writes James Christen Steward.

The Kids Are All Right

To connect with students in the classroom, you need to be realistic about them and about yourself, write Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. and David B. Strohmetz.

Giving the Community a College

By focusing on career training over education, the federal government risks threatening to shortchange two-year-college students, writes Bernard Fryshman.

Only English Spoken

Dan Edelstein asks whether liberal education is credible without foreign languages.

Brandeis Wasn't Wrong

In 2001 I donated my collection of prints by sculptors to the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern, though some...

More Than Appearances

The new dress code at Morehouse College is about more than clothes, writes Marybeth Gasman.