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The deans with the greatest challenge today may be those who lead liberal arts divisions, writes Michael Bugeja, who says it's time they received some support.

Lucinda Roy, a Virginia Tech professor who reported concerns about Seung-Hui Cho before he killed, writes that the idea of arming faculty members is foolish and dangerous.

In wake of numerous reports of colleges submitting false information, Myron Roomkin argues that institutions should audit the data they share publicly about their academic performance.

On a literary lecture tour in China, Martin Puchner finds much interest in how American authors responded to industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Nate Kreuter reflects on how some chance encounters made him feel welcome at a large university -- and pointed him forward.

Last week's proposal out of California would give for-profit higher ed legitimacy it has long sought, and undercut the role of accreditation and the authority of public universities to control the quality of their programs, writes Tressie McMillan Cottom.

A faculty member describes the choice of staying in the closet or losing a job.

Bob Blaisdell remembers a student who tried and tried but could not master the skills needed in remedial English.