Opinion

Laurence Musgrove is no Luddite, but he's sick of being told he has to learn some new gizmo to reach his students.

How do you measure the best religion? The best marriage? Hard to say. The same is true in assessing colleges, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Thanks to DNA testing, Sally Hemings is fully part of national history. Scott McLemee considers the work of a scholar who fears the real story will be whitewashed.

Multiply 15 minutes of fame by 6 billion people, and you’re bound to run across someone famous sometime. Some encounters...

If academics want to help the environment, they need to rethink some of their own practices, writes Eric Rauchway.

Alex Golub considers the transitions -- some not so welcome -- away from a graduate student identity, and holds on when he can.

Terry Caesar considers why some adjuncts insist on being called "professor" and why some colleges resist that appellation.

Your entries to the “One True Sentence” contest prove you’ve seen and heard some things. No wonder you have that...