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Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes.

Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.

When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events?

These new technologies have much to offer colleges and their students, but if we are not careful how we incorporate them, the risks may outweigh the gains, Vincent Del Casino Jr. writes.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley says California’s online community college will be a better public alternative to for-profit colleges for the “stranded workers” traditional college systems struggle to serve.

Online education is an engine of racial inequality, argue Christopher Newfield and Cameron Sublett, and no good higher ed policy can be created ignoring that fact.

It's never been more important for college leaders and policy makers to value the role of community college transfer programs, despite President Trump's recent suggestions to the contrary, write Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel.

Jim Jump wants more scrutiny of policies of big-time basketball programs -- and of college admissions offices.