Opinion

Three cheers for the educators at Syracuse and UW Madison for refusing to purchase new Kindle's until the speech-to-text feature...

During the academic year at Greenback, campus buildings alternate between "occupied" and "unoccupied" status. Our energy management system is programmed...

It’s good to collect Ph.D.s—people who have them, not the degrees themselves—to make yourself look smarter at cocktail parties. “Oh...

Debates over affirmative action divert attention from the need for a massive research project to understand -- and close -- the racial achievement gap, write Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford.

Although speed dating came along late enough that I missed it, I'll admit being fascinated by it as an intellectual...

Money has been much on my mind in recent days. We are all thinking about our work in terms of...

Last week my daughter and I read the classic Bridge to Terabithia. I wouldn’t have re-read this on my own...

Did you hear the one about the humanities Ph.D.? Last month, Inside Higher Ed reported on the Graduate Education Initiative...