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A historian's thoughts on recent American religious history resonate with the campaign season. Scott McLemee looks around the paywall.

If universities want to end athletic scandals, they need to kill Division I football and basketball, writes Lewis Margolis.

Daniel S. Hamermesh studied why more attractive people are more successful -- and found evidence that the trend applies in academe.

Discouraging professors of journalism from doing journalism themselves is like telling a music professor to give away his piano and...

In the time of Twitter, concision may be a valid goal in student writing. But clarity and accuracy are often emphasized too little, Kim Epting argues.

Shortly before the bombing and shooting spree in Norway last month that left 77 people dead, Anders Behring Breivik e-mailed...

If colleges want to make it more difficult to earn an A, they need to consider why faculty members feel pressure to award them, writes Peter Eubanks.

Cathy Davidson admits to being a professor who believes higher education shouldn't be the goal for everyone.