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Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.

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Almost a century after Prohibition went into effect, we remember it as Puritanism run amok. Scott McLemee looks into a book taking a different view.

By Scott McLemee

Michael S. Roth reflects on the questioning of liberal education in China and the United States.

By Michael S. Roth

The idea of deliberately manipulating a crisis at a flagship U.S. university via social media once sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory, writes Ellen de Graffenreid, but we now realize the extent to which it can actually happen.

By Ellen de Graffenreid

As we consider the use of technological tools in learning, let’s focus less on the what and more on the why and how, Jonathan Kaplan writes.

By Jonathan Kaplan

Mark Edmundson explores -- and applauds -- current students' quest for identity but says that achieving it is only half the game.

By Mark Edmundson

It's not easy to speak up on behalf of a colleague under face-to-face attack from students, but we must do so to defend our free speech, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

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Jim Jump considers the questions raised when high school students and their parents don't want a college to know about a disciplinary infraction.

By Jim Jump