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In Need of a Persuasive Story

College leaders are paying the price for having done a poor job crafting coherent and compelling explanations about college prices, writes Paul Marthers.

Ballad of the Borderland

Before globalization hit the headlines, Américo Paredes was living it. Scott McLemee interviews the leading Paredes scholar for an IHE podcast.

Composition and Cookies

Terry Caesar considers the relationship between the traditional role of faculty wife and the role of today's adjunct.

All That Money -- What Next?

Wick Sloane offers three suggestions for changing the federal tax code to help more low-income and first-generation Americans afford college.

Admissions Dysfunction

Mitchell Lipton, a dean, recalls three scenes that illustrate how something terribly wrong has happened to the system.

Learning From Cats

Rob Weir nominates eight academic fights to give up in '08

Hillary-ious

A new book looks at media bias in coverage of women running for president. Scott McLemee considers the talking points.

Reclaiming Our Birthright

Contractual relationships with corporations have tarnished higher education's public image. College presidents and trustees must work to restore it, writes Constantine W. Curris.