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Online learning's growth shows no signs of slowing. The Online Learning Consortium estimates that 85 percent of Americans enrolled in...

By Amy Hale and Emily Wood

Abraham Flexner's The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge highlights how the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake has shown itself to be a powerful force in the world, writes Scott McLemee.

By Scott McLemee

Entrepreneur mania seems to be sweeping higher education institutions, but an entire university based largely on those principles is problematic, argues Steven C. Ward.

By Steven C. Ward

Current technology offers unfettered access to good information and good scholarship, but standing in the way is the U.S. copyright law, argues Bryn Geffert.

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Lee Burdette Williams provides a tongue-in-cheek look at an institution's effort to differentiate itself.

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State policy isn’t the only way to tackle low community college student transfer rates, write Josh Wyner and Alison Kadlec. Institutional action matters, too.

By Josh Wyner and Alison Kadlec

A new documentary and a book from Denmark point to the dangers and dead ends of the self-transformation industry, says Scott McLemee

By Scott McLemee

Christian colleges can provide a bridge between elite opinion and “red-state” America, writes Thomas Albert Howard. How might they rise to the occasion?

By Thomas Albert Howard