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Even at teaching-oriented colleges, writes Kim Mooney, it's essential for faculty members to rejuvenate their classroom skills.

Undergraduate institutions can't be reduced to "farm clubs" for "big league" medical schools, writes Timothy R. Austin.

Three years ago, an undercover agent in Maryland spied on activists. Scott McLemee finds her description in a sociologist's article from 1974.

College presidents and trustees must step up if American higher education is to meet the productivity and affordability challenges ahead, writes Larry A. Isaak.

Student excitement suggests that it's time for colleges to think not just about civic engagement, but about the curriculum in American history and politics, writes Richard M. Freeland.

Sorry men, writes Mary Hatcher-Skeers, the gender equity problem in science has not been solved.

Revamp the financial aid system? Robert Shireman says the Education Department might focus its energy in its last days on a less-ambitious but helpful goal: better URLs for its Web sites.

Newspapers keep abandoning any responsibility toward books. Scott McLemee looks back at print culture....