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Seeking Money for Universities, Not Students

Wrapped in high-minded rhetoric, public colleges' plea for federal stimulus funds is purely pork barrel politics, argues Jane S. Shaw.

Going on a Diet

Among Richard Vedder's 10 ways the economic downturn might change campus behavior: bigger teaching loads, more unionization, a truce in the athletics arms race -- and a slowing in college presidents' pay?

The Committee Is Now in Session

Carolyn Foster Segal considers -- with some fear -- the number of meetings professors must attend.

Stop Using Rhetoric to Teach Writing

It's time to question an increasingly popular way to organize a key part of undergraduate education, writes Joseph Kugelmass.

Hey, RIAA and MPAA, Time to Shift Gears

Entertainment companies should stop policing illegal downloading by college students, Joseph Storch argues, and head to the new frontier: the mobile device as all-purpose media-access machine.

A Call for a Higher Education Summit

Arthur Levine writes that colleges could easily miss an opportunity offered by the presidential transition, but that the right kind of conclave could make this a constructive moment for tackling key issues.

International Study Shouldn't Be Elective

Every American decade has its archetypes. If you were heading off to business school in the 1980s, you might have...

The Economic Collapse and Educational Values

Ralph Hexter sees similarities between the reward structures of the business world and the college world -- and thinks academics should offer a different model.