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Despite all the changes going on outside campuses -- and often, in fact, because of them -- our traditional educational practices have never been more important, writes Michael S. Roth.

Their main shortcoming is in the false assurance they offer colleges and universities, argues Sigal Ben-Porath.

We need to ask students why they want to go to college, writes Nicholas Soodik.

Jim Jump considers the reports of abuse and application fraud by a private school in Louisiana that has been highly praised.

College credentialing and degree inflation tend to serve the needs of employers, not students, write Frederick M. Hess and Grant Addison.

In advance of International Human Rights Day, Scott McLemee reviews Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory, by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon and Max Pensky.

A poem by Laurence Musgrove on reading books.

The more academics seek to inform and shape policy, the more they must confront efforts to undermine their influence, writes Linda Stamato.