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A focus on improving students’ critical reading skills, while essential, is missing from many conversations about student success, Alice S. Horning writes.

Scott McLemee reviews Kay Harel’s Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia.

Both tenure and unions are crucial for protecting the rights of faculty and other academic professionals in American higher education, Irene Mulvey and Randi Weingarten write.

Providing better service to students must go well beyond just being friendlier and making office hours more convenient, writes Seth Bodnar of the University of Montana.

Colleges in “permissive” states should start planning for the potential impact of restrictive abortion laws on their campuses, Alex Wolf writes.

U.S. research universities have seen a drop in citation impact and academic reputation as institutions in East Asia and the Middle East have been gaining ground, Phil Baty writes.

The controversial firing of an organic chemistry professor at New York University speaks to broader issues about student success in “weed-out” courses, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.

Both colleges and employers must fix work-readiness failures and inequitable work-readiness practices, writes Brandon Busteed.