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Ralph Waldo Emerson ... writing instructor? Scott McLemee signs up for a workshop with the sage of Concord.

By Scott McLemee

The social network site ignores the care with which academics need to calibrate the mix of private and professional in their lives, writes Alex Golub.

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Some of the toughest questions in higher education would benefit from true experiments -- complete with control groups -- writes Alexandra W. Logue.

By Alexandra W. Logue

U of All People upgrades its methods for preparing faculty members, and David Galef is there.

By Doug Lederman

Poets -- and others in the humanities -- should be wary of the National Survey of Student Engagement and other assessment tools, but should also look for ways to use them that make educational and disciplinary sense, writes Anna Leahy.

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A new book chronicles the aftermath of the MLK assassination. Scott McLemee interviews the author.

By Scott McLemee

Once at the core of their colleges, faculty members are being marginalized and increasingly ignored by their institutions and, now, by the federal government, Bernard Fryshman argues.

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Some academics and critics may sneer at Malcolm Gladwell, but Rachel Toor celebrates the New Yorker writer's love of ideas, his entertaining and inviting writing style -- and, yes, his hair.

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