Views

There is still far too much data that we don't have about how higher education is performing, Dennis P. Jones argues.

From Iraq, Rich Morales, a Yale alum, White House fellow, and battalion commander, weighs in on the university’s debate over restoring an officer training corps to its campus.

A new book reflects on the writer as migrant. Scott McLemee tracks it down.

Many critiques of affirmative action fail to understand how decisions are actually made, writes Julie Vultaggio.

William Major writes that he can't imagine punishing or rewarding a student for political reasons. But he wonders how much grades may be determined by whether professors like or dislike students.

The burgeoning financial pressures on institutions increase the need for them to look for creative ways to make health insurance more affordable, not less, for their students, writes Jon Englund.

Beverly Daniel Tatum considers why, as so many students rejoice in the election of Barack Obama, some campuses are experiencing racial incidents linked to the election.

The late John Leonard was a one-man cultural-studies symposium. Scott McLemee reminisces...