Views

Before globalization hit the headlines, Américo Paredes was living it. Scott McLemee interviews the leading Paredes scholar for an IHE podcast.

Terry Caesar considers the relationship between the traditional role of faculty wife and the role of today's adjunct.

Wick Sloane offers three suggestions for changing the federal tax code to help more low-income and first-generation Americans afford college.

Mitchell Lipton, a dean, recalls three scenes that illustrate how something terribly wrong has happened to the system.

Rob Weir nominates eight academic fights to give up in '08

A new book looks at media bias in coverage of women running for president. Scott McLemee considers the talking points.

Contractual relationships with corporations have tarnished higher education's public image. College presidents and trustees must work to restore it, writes Constantine W. Curris.

Groups should be more honest about the job market and find ways to force departments to treat applicants with some courtesy, writes Michael Bowen.