Opinion

College leaders are understandably focused on short-term financial woes. But they'll err -- and do long-term damage, Peter Stokes writes -- if they hunker down and avoid asking basic questions about what they do.

To conduct a successful search for a position outside academe, Ph.D.'s need to confront their anger about feeling pushed out of the ivory tower, writes Christine Kelly.

A savvy correspondent writes: I'm writing because my large urban public university recently hired a high-profile person who, in a...

The other day I found myself watching “Good Morning America” while waiting for some work to be done on my...

Patricia DeWitt makes a point which is entirely valid, at least if the expressions of a lot of staff folk...

“If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is...

A decidedly non-academic meeting leaves Patricia G. Greene and Heidi M. Neck thinking about how higher education needs to change.

A new correspondent writes: I was wondering if you could share some questions you might ask a chairperson candidate. Thank...