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"Finish in four, I promise!" That is what Northern Arizona University is telling its incoming students. With a little better...

Will bringing in an inspirational speaker cure the faculty blues? Scott McLemee describes a skirmish in the culture wars.

As the nation’s registrars gather this week in Boston, Wick Sloane applies a dash of Open Source thinking to the costly, intractable data, articulation, credit-transfer muddle in higher education.

As her academic career evolves, Amy L. Wink reconsiders the books she needs to have, and those she can give up.

Killing the student grant program is a bad idea, says Constantine Curris, but some criticisms of it are warranted.

Laurence Musgrove is no Luddite, but he's sick of being told he has to learn some new gizmo to reach his students.

Thanks to DNA testing, Sally Hemings is fully part of national history. Scott McLemee considers the work of a scholar who fears the real story will be whitewashed.

How do you measure the best religion? The best marriage? Hard to say. The same is true in assessing colleges, Bernard Fryshman writes.