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Three Questions for Higher Education

We need to engage in a serious dialogue about our role in exacerbating the opportunity gap and our obligation to close it, argues Dan Greenstein.

Lessons From the Tragedy of the Commons

We in higher education must act on our collective responsibility to support America's public universities, writes Harold M. Hastings.

Coming in 2017

Colleges and universities should prepare for seven key trends in the new year, Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson advise.

Colleges Should Abandon Early Admissions

The disadvantage they confer on low-income students is a fatal flaw, argues Harold O. Levy.

‘Suspicious Minds’

Rob Brotherton’s Suspicious Minds illuminates how Trump’s affinity for the conspiratorial mind-set forms the bedrock of his very existence as a political figure, writes Scott McLemee.

Compassion Is No Substitute for Competence

Higher education institutions are woefully unprepared to handle the complexity of rape cases, argues Ted Gup.

Swimming Against the Current

Samuel J. Abrams’s research demonstrates that, far from being a beleaguered and miserable minority, conservative professors are, in fact, quite happy in the academy.

Crossing the Gulf of the Two Cultures

As we in the humanities defend ourselves, we should not engage in the corollary of denouncing the sciences as unimportant.