Opinion

Boards should change their behavior -- before Congress makes them, says Drew Miller.

Wonder why you are worn out by the end of the semester? Shari Wilson explores the demands of being a professor.

Lucie Lapovsky suggests that colleges consider planning for succession rather than automatically going to an outside search.

David Galef shares the latest memo making the rounds at U. of All People.

A French thinker is writing the "conceptual history" of modern democracy. Scott McLemee takes some lessons.

Alex Golub writes about why even digitally enabled scholars will continue to love books.

A popular way of comparing scholars and institutions is having unintended negative consequences all over the world, writes Philip G. Altbach.

My younger brother celebrated his first birthday at a campus protest. It was 1988, and my Mom, a Gallaudet University...