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Being active on the platform can provide scholars with a number of important benefits, writes Christopher Schaberg.

By Christopher Schaberg

As a new president, Hank Bounds found that Twitter offered an unprecedented opportunity for him to gain insights from a wide range of constituents.

By Hank Bounds

Nonelite law schools face an existential threat due to market-based disruptions, write Michele Pistone and Michael Horn, who describe innovations that can help.

By Michele Pistone and Michael Horn

If enacted, a proposal by Donald Trump would result in only the wealthy gaining the benefits of the kind of liberal education that is the foundation for success, argues Lynn Pasquerella.

By Lynn Pasquerella

Lincoln University’s decision to suspend its history major ignores W. E. B. Du Bois’s belief in the power of history to shape lives in the present and his vision of the university as a center to help reconstruct the world, argues J. Mark Leslie.

By J. Mark Leslie

In Return to Cold War, Robert Legvold gives a succinct, lucid, fairly dispassionate and almost incessantly even-handed presentation of relations between the United States and Russia, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

Perhaps we in higher ed should consider motivating students to graduate by focusing more on what they have left to do than what they have already done, argues Alexandra W. Logue.

By Alexandra W. Logue

The increasingly intense pressure on faculty members to get federal grants has produced many undesirable consequences in higher education, argue Gordon G. Gallup Jr. and Bruce B. Svare.

By Gordon G. Gallup Jr. and Bruce B. Svare