Filter & Sort
Jell-O Molds and Cigarettes
As CVS stops selling cigarettes, and more universities get into the Jell-O mold business, Ryan Craig wonders when universities will stop trying to be all things to all people.
Don’t Reform NCAA – Replace It
The association has lost control of college athletics. Congress should step in to create an alternative, as it did in another amateur sports realm in the 1970s, Donna Lopiano and Gerald Gurney write.
Misjudgment Calls
Professors are sometimes too quick to decide on the intellectual ability of students and colleagues, writes Heather Dubrow.
Don't Ban Student Emails
Students learn something from the way professors respond, even to messages that never should have been sent, writes Danielle DeRise.
'Civil' Wars
Just because civility may not be an appropriate reason to hire, tenure or fire academics doesn't mean it shouldn't matter in higher education, writes Judith Shapiro.
Interviewing Gay Candidates
Karen M. Whitney and Jon Derek Croteau offer guideposts for interacting with candidates and finding the best talent for key academic positions.
Ice Buckets for English?
Randy Malamud is searching for a way for higher education to inspire the kind of philanthropy and public support that has gone viral in the last month for another worthy cause.
Opinion
The Course is Dead. Long Live the Course.
The pushes toward modular instruction and competency-based education are significant, but don't expect traditional forms of teaching to disappear, writes Dan Butin.