Opinion

Andrew Ross questions the motives and assumptions behind the push by American universities to open campuses abroad.

Every parent's nightmare happened again, this time at NIU. My condolences to the students, faculty, and families there. It's scary...

Valentine's Day. Time to pull out your Shakespeare's Sonnets, choose one to type up in a fancy font for that...

A regular reader writes: A probationary faculty member in my college plagiarized his entire statement of teaching philosophy in his...

Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.]...

A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...

There is more to Richard Posner's book on public intellectuals than the Top 100 list. Scott McLemee revisits it....

Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up - check it out - on the changing role of the...