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Richard M. Freeland suggests three ways higher education leaders can respond to declining public support and confidence.

Scott McLemee explores Michael S. A. Graziano’s The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution and Human Nature, which describes how we are each surrounded by a kind of invisible bubble possessing remarkable qualities.

Susan Henking shares some of the fundamental lessons she learned in merging the college she led with another.

Faculty members and designers need clear roles, but ones that emphasize the deeply shared nature of their work, writes Tim Milosch.

Rather than investing in expensive building projects that can create financial and public-relations risks, writes Loren Rullman, institutions should focus on the educational case for facility development.

The endowment tax is an attack on all colleges and universities, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives, argues John K. Wilson.

The justification of the tax on private college endowments as a means of increasing affordability indicates a misunderstanding of the financial aid system, writes Phillip Levine.

Jim Jump considers issues of equity in college admissions.