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Faculty members should help students find a path to academic success, but they shouldn't be afraid of giving Fs to those who don't do the work to succeed, writes Melissa Nicolas.

When awarding grants to college students, states should consider financial need, support timely completion -- and keep things simple, write Sandy Baum and Matthew Chingos.

Privately owned career colleges aren't at war with the nonprofit mission, writes Steve Gunderson; they're partners with it.

The Committee for Economic Development's call for boosting higher education's performance without more public investment represents a major missed opportunity, writes Gary Rhoades.

Nondiscrimination policies like Vanderbilt University's that define who can lead student groups are evidence less of a campus "war on God" than of the tyranny of "inclusion," writes Louis Betty.

Adam Kotsko writes that intensive, small-group discussion of great works of literature still offers uniquely valuable paths to teaching and learning.

Virgil W. Brower writes that courses based on intense discussions of great works of literature need not be limited to elite institutions.