Opinion

College lobbyists cited privacy issues to kill off "unit records," writes Kevin Carey, even as they use a similar system for their own purposes.

Money shortages create all manner of frictions. Say you have a large group that believes, with varying levels of truth...

Let me combine two university-related subjects I've been promising to write about -- online courses, which I've called the poor...

As I wrote in a couple of earlier posts ( here and here), I’ve long had an interest in independent...

Each year some 57,000 newly awarded PhD’s enter the job market – way too many for all to find positions...

Are cable TV writers cribbing from Foucault? Not exactly. But Scott McLemee is keeping an eye on them anyway.

This semester, I think my cc has set a new internal record for public presentations. We've been staging talks on...

This interactive map showing current (not projected) global warming impact requires that you have Google Earth installed, but you probably...