Opinion

Undergraduates aren't the only ones on campus who drink a lot. Shari Wilson explores the reasons.

This summer, Scott McLemee hoped academic librarians would blog more about their work. Voila! Introducing ACRLog.

Universities celebrate their achievements in an endless series of public pronouncements. Like the imaginary residents of Lake Wobegon, all universities...

When I was just a few years out of graduate school I wrote a “treatment” for a television series to...

Jerome Karabel's book about Ivy League admissions touches a bundle of raw nerves. Scott McLemee twitches in response.

When department members come together, Terry Caesar writes, they reveal much about themselves -- and academic life.

The online version of a print journal must be more than just an electronic version of the original, writes Collin Brooke.

When her nephew abandons a degree program for a short-term certificate, Paula Krebs wonders where she and the country went wrong.