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Robert J. Nash offers principles for putting students -- not prestige or politics -- at the center of higher education.

Despite social scientists' legitimate opposition to helping the Pentagon in ways that violate scholarly ethics, their research and perspective are needed to shift U.S. policy, writes David Vine.

Teaching himself Russian gives Bob Blaisdell perspective on his students who are new to English.

Colleges should educate their students about the Internet, not try to shield them from it, Joseph Storch argues in the first of a two-part series.

David Galef describes how the men, women and children of U of All People are welcoming in the new academic year.

Jim Carroll and Paul Ricoeur looked death in the face and wrote about it. Scott McLemee reads the fragments....

It’s not easy to find a country in the Middle East whose universities honor academic freedom as we know it...

A trip to the movie theater and an offhanded comment from an employee prompt Karen Gross to reflect on the similarities between cooking and presiding over a college.