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Professors need to ask hard questions before they sign off on the new graduate programs colleges and universities are starting, writes Lee Skallerup Bessette.

"Can I get a job with an English degree?" The question from a student prompts Casey Wiley to think about his students' motivations, and his own.

Each year, Beloit's "Mindset List" suggests that academics will struggle to understand technologically advanced but historically ignorant freshmen. Tim Morris prepares a list that suggests it has always been this way.

A new book discusses the power and fascination of humiliation. Scott McLemee can't look away.

Pamela Bedore, Tom Deans and Thomas Lawrence Long reflect on a faculty committee that was a success without pushing for change.

A stint in public higher education left Paula M. Krebs wondering how private liberal arts colleges think about their obligations to their local communities.

Tenured professors should make alternate career contingency plans before the higher ed system collapses, writes James D. Miller.

The experience of a women's college may point to steps all institutions can take to diversify science and technology fields, writes Jane McAuliffe.