Opinion

Academic publishers are bringing out coffee table books. Scott McLemee takes a look at some recent titles.

History warns that focusing on economics and top-down educational reform are ill-advised strategies, David C. Paris writes.

Christopher Bundrick shares an exchange of notes between an aspiring author and a journal editor.

Having survived the frenzy of campus crises, James H. Ammons and Christopher Simpson share some of what they learned -- and warn that eventually your institution will be in the crosshairs.

Even in an era of wired students and adjuncts without offices, Terry Caesar writes that colleges must be places where people can spend quality time with books.

Is Google a menace to humanity, or at least to Europe? Scott McLemee searches for the answer.

Data theft is not the only way a federal plan to track students could rob them of privacy, Bernard Fryshman warns.

America is under-investing in basic research, and professors and members of Congress can't let that continue, Sen. Bill Frist writes.