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Essay argues the age of big data is the time for professors to reconsider their reliance on the anti-plagiarism business.

Colleges educating nontraditional learners would do well to study the Army’s competency-based approach, writes Steven Delvaux.

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

Head basketball coach at Louisville, where program paid escorts to strip and perform sex acts for recruits, will be suspended for five games. The university says the punishment -- seen by some experts as a slap on the wrist -- is too harsh and intends to appeal.

Many young people have precious little experience in the working world -- which makes it more incumbent on universities (and their faculties) to help prepare them better for it, Ryan Craig argues.

Concealed carriers aren’t likely to make effective interventions, and such a focus distracts us from the best arguments for campus carry, which should be primarily about the individual right to self-defense and self-determination, argues Erik Gilbert.

The idea of colleges fielding teams for video games, an oddity just several years ago, now supports an athletic conference and is seeing major growth.

Against a tide of pro-gun rulings and legislation, a state appeals court ruled 2 to 1 that the University of Michigan -- a public institution -- has the right to ban guns on campus.