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In an excerpt from his new book on MIT, Samuel Jay Keyser talks about why commissions and task forces may be ignored, but certain events can lead to real change at a university.

It's been almost twenty years since the death of an American intellectual maverick. But Scott McLemee finds there is plenty of life left in his work.

Decades after an action in class he regretted instantly, Lauren Soth meets the student he embarrassed.

Commencement is supposed to be students' crowning achievement. So how come so few professors bother to see their students off? David Galef asks.

Pete Mackey considers why campuses -- and their diverse constituencies -- react to different speakers in different ways.

The Education Department's proposed mechanism for holding for-profit and vocational college programs accountable could put student data at serious risk, writes Daniel J. Solove.

A new book considers the power of religion in the public sphere. Scott McLemee reads it while bracing for 2012.

State leaders who want to improve historically black colleges need to focus on students and budget fairness, not governance changes, writes James T. Minor.