Opinion

In years past, I used to worry about what to "do" with Ben during his school breaks. This year, he had to remind me not to wake him up on Friday morning, because the start date of his spring break kept slipping my mind.

Some scholars are alarmed by planned changes at the New York Public Library. But Anthony Marx writes that the shifts will promote research and protect the collections.

The next generation of leaders of public comprehensive universities may well have to refashion the institutions, Emily Miller and Richard Skinner write.

The United States is truly moving into the era of the commercialization of international higher education. International students, particularly, are being seen as “cash cows” that can bring in needed revenues at a time of austerity.

How does the fear that you and your institution will get sued for copyright infringement alter the way in which you provide educational materials for your students?

The Girl: “If you dug a tunnel to China, would the hole in the earth make a whistling sound as the earth turned?”

I was born logical and creative and comical and dark and practical and dreamy and compassionate and angry. I was born understanding myself as a whole; I never questioned my own composition. For a long time in my life, I believed that I could be anyone. But lives move forward in choices and in those choices there is growth. Most of those choices are necessary, but some of them are false. It never occurred to me that one day I would have to begin the doppelgängers's dance, the double-walking life of one made to divide one’s self. Again and again in my life I have been presented with a choice that I now know is false: the choice between artist and analyst.