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Suppose you are an ambitious, gifted college student with a passion for your major and the potential to become a...

Stephen Brockmann wonders if a key cause of the crisis facing humanities programs can be traced to the culture wars of the '80s.

Nona Balakian was an editor at The New York Times Book Review who joined its staff in the 1940s, after...

Colleges that boast about the environmental training they provide need to remember that these issues must be part of every program and every job, not just a subset, writes David Schejbal.

Robert J. Sternberg turns to psychology research to explain why assigning ordinal numbers to colleges is inherently flawed.

While faculty endlessly debate general education and requirements for the major, they should also focus on the potential of electives, writes Dan Edelstein.

In this space last Friday, Anthony Carnevale strongly and lengthily argued that “college is still worth it.” He implicitly criticized...

Colleges can and should refrain from investigating applicants’ criminal pasts, writes Marsha Weissman.