Filter & Sort
Ethical College Admissions: The Cult of Selectivity
Jim Jump hopes that Stanford's recent announcement that it won't boast about admissions statistics leads to reflection at other colleges about the quest for more and more applicants.
Distant Early Warning
Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee.
The Ronell Case and the Catholic Church
Defenders of Avital Ronell should look to the uncovering of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal, argues Kathryn Meredith Doyle.
Democratizing the American University
When it comes to cases like that of Avita Ronell, American universities can learn a lot from British ones, argues Rebecca Gould.
Leaving So Soon?
Why are growing numbers of presidential tenures short-lived, asks Clara M. Lovett, and what can we learn from them?
Why University Presidents Are (and Aren’t) Losing Their Jobs
A key common problem in the recent string of presidential resignations involves a lack of shared governance, argues William G. Tierney.
Blockchain Pixie Dust
Jonathan A. Poritz warns that colleges and universities should not rush too quickly to embrace the new technology for distributed public ledgers on the internet.