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Even in challenging times for higher education, unions representing teaching assistants are achieving important victories that help many others in academe, writes Asad Haider.

The 2013, 2014 and 2015 chairs of UT Austin's Faculty Council argue that the effort to remove the president there is shortsighted, and that academics nationwide must take note.

Students who don't come to campus deserve a discount, writes Randy Best.

Diploma mills are almost as old as the university itself. Scott McLemee wonders why there isn't more scholarship on the real problem of fake degrees.

Alex Golub returns to a comparison he made nine years ago as an A.B.D., and considers it from perspective of a tenured professor.

Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.

Trotting out students as victims of for-profit institutions is often an attack by false and partial anecdotes, writes Wade Dyke.

Mark Edington considers the real crisis in academic publishing.