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Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.

Nick Altwies questions why, from the death of Scott Krueger to that of Timothy Piazza, we haven’t seemed to learn anything in the past 20 years.

Look at the numbers, writes Robert Massa. A tuition reset can be real.

Jim Jump considers reports on steep cuts in tuition rates and big investments in amenities.

Richard Ohmann describes two scenarios of what happened in universities and society, then and afterward.

Wick Sloane’s annual survey shows that 36 highly selective colleges are enrolling 722 former military service members this fall. That’s more than last year, but still an embarrassment, he argues.

It requires offering a broad-based education in which digital skills are developed throughout the entire curriculum and a wide array of co-curricular experiences, write Kimberly Cassidy and Gina Siesing.