Opinion

It’s old news that many libraries suffer for lack of money. After September 11th, Hinterland’s investment portfolio tanked with the...

By Oronte

The Virginia Tech shootings have prompted calls for tougher campus mental health policies. Ira Socol suggests colleges go the other way.

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Some of you have written to ask how I, a writing teacher, feel about the creative writing connection in the...

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Colleges winning acclaim for shifts in strategies are doing more to help themselves in the competition for students than to help students who can't afford college, writes Daniel F. Sullivan.

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Kurt Vonnegut is dead. So it goes. Scott McLemee gets unstuck in time.

By Scott McLemee

Our deepest sympathies go to those at Virginia Tech and their families. Violence on any campus is an attack on...

By Oronte

The scandal has revealed some poor decisions and problems that need fixing, but going too far could hurt students, writes Donald E. Heller.

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Stephen Joel Trachtenberg writes that educators must insist that even in violent conflicts, college and university campuses merit special protection.

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