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Too many people are backing away from the difficult challenge of placing Ph.D. holders in tenure-track positions and toward a far simpler one: taking credit for positions that degree holders are already finding for themselves, Marc Bousquet argues.

Chinese students are flooding into America to obtain their college degrees. But, Adele Barker asks, are they getting the education they have come here to receive?

Innovation cannot be taught like math, writing or even entrepreneurship, writes Deba Dutta. But it can be inculcated with the right skills, experiences and environments.

Colleges and universities themselves can't fulfill employers' inflated expectations for what workers can do on day one, but a new set of intermediaries can help them bridge the "skills standoff," Ryan Craig writes.

Paul B. Wignall's book on how Earth has withstood waves of cataclysmic extinction make the fall of dinosaurs seem like last week's news, writes Scott McLemee.

At a time when higher ed is subject to report cards and other scrutiny about its worth, the news media should more accurately depict the public's opinion, says Keith R. Martel.

Academics need to embrace the facts in their classrooms about important social issues, however risky it may be, writes Steve Wolverton.

If we can't rid campuses of guns, we must create security checks throughout them, argues Jeffrey Ian Ross.