Opinion

Proliferating course offerings can overwhelm and confuse students and make a college education seem like a box-checking exercise rather than a cohesive and comprehensive intellectual endeavor, argues Loni Bordoloi Pazich.

Neither time or money should be wasted by requiring students to sit in large lecture halls, taking introductory-level courses from an arbitrarily-chosen bucket of courses, write Arthur "Tim" Garson Jr. and Robert C. Pianta.

Before approaching the subject with your future or current supervisor, you should consider their interests, advises Stephanie K. Eberle.

Jim Jump writes that parents shouldn’t be finishing any part of their children’s applications.

Matthew Poslusny writes that provosts should have responsibility for both recruiting and retaining students.