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At U of All People, beset by budget woes, department heads make their case to the powers-that-be. David Galef reads their e-mail.

Mary Hoeft describes what it is like to feel endangered by a student.

A prominent literary theorist has advice on learning to compose sentences. Scott McLemee drops a line.

The devastating budget cuts hitting public colleges make an emphasis on graduation goals all the more important, writes Hilary Pennington.

Robert Eisinger makes the case for emphasizing fluidity over concreteness and probability over facts in the college classroom.

It's time for a common mechanism for regulating cross-border online learning, Michael Goldstein argues.

It's time to admit that some remedial education has so little chance of success that completely open admissions systems don't help anyone, writes Roy Flores.

This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of an influential translation of the Bible. Scott McLemee hears echoes of it everywhere.