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It's time to admit that many of those who enroll in United States colleges want to stay after graduation, and to make the case that this is advantageous, writes Gautham Pandiyan.

The “colleges as businesses” model may be flawed, but administrators and professors can ill afford to not to listen to the plaints of their students, Todd Diacon writes.

A new book analyzes a famous photograph from Boston anti-busing protests. Scott McLemee takes a pre-post-racial look.

Colleges need to question their rush to the latest technological wonders and focus more on students, writes Michael Bugeja.

It's time for journal essays to replace books as the dominant mode of scholarly communication, writes Lindsay Waters.

Alan Groveman wants professors to be a little less quick to criticize their students' various inabilities.

College leaders opposed federal efforts to dictate student learning measures. They should do the same, Bernard Fryshman writes, to efforts by some higher education groups to specify content.

A new film takes an almost hallucinatory look at the protests in Chicago in 1968. Scott McLemee trips into its black holes.