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Colleges have no business using information students provide on the federal aid form about institutions they are interested in to make decisions that will hurt students, writes Ali Lincoln.

The leading search engine for academic research is almost 10 years old. Scott McLemee considers how it's grown -- and to what size.

Henry Reichman argues that several recent statements from college leaders indeed pose a threat to academic freedom.

Eliminating community college tuition sounds great, but Robert Kelchen questions who really benefits.

Cary Nelson writes that the calls for civility on campus are appropriate -- and need not squelch academic freedom, strong advocacy or unpopular views.

The public discussion of a recent speech, from behind bars, to Goddard graduates incorrectly portrayed the speaker and the college, writes Jan Clausen.

They die a thousand times, and heroes only once -- but nobody analyzes them. Scott McLemee consults the first history of cowardice

When higher education administrators and reforms ignore the role of professors, write Philip G. Altbach and Martin J. Finkelstein, they risk killing the goose that lays the golden egg.