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The Misguided 'Online Skills Laboratory'

While seeking to make college more affordable and accessible, the Obama administration has launched a worrisome but largely unnoticed assault...

Change Through Debate

Academe has a unique ability to promote political civility in the United States, writes Susan Herbst.

A System for Fighting Digital Defamation

Benjamin Bleiberg and Joseph Storch propose a way to help victims combat the Web sites that vilify college students.

Saving Public Higher Ed

Joseph E. Aoun argues that all parties in higher education -- including leaders of private universities like his -- suffer when state colleges struggle financially.

Mutual Aid Society

Did humanity evolve with selfish genes? Scott McLemee looks into an alternative theory

Helping Women in 100-Hour Couples

Colleges need to embrace specific policies and also to promote flexibility if they want to recruit and retain female faculty members, write Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy.

In Praise of 'Community'

The much anticipated premiere of “Community,” the NBC sitcom many community college faculty and administrators feared would damage the already...

Talking the Talk, Then Walking the Walk

Robert Connor alienated his peers when he began using the language of assessment a decade ago, but the shift in discourse has taken hold, he argues.