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The metric used in the U.S. News rankings is deeply flawed and can encourage a profoundly limited view of the positive impact of alumni relations, argues Sue Cunningham.

The need to sell higher education and the liberal arts is real, and there should be no shame in that, argue Leonard Cassuto and Robin L. Cautin.

The digital communication platform gives students more ways to interact with instructors and one another and can breathe life into the online classroom, Kathleen Kole de Peralta and Sarah Robey write.

Asking everyone their preferred personal pronoun is not a good idea, argues Rachel N. Levin.

There is absolutely no way to take a student’s work in any class and put a number or a letter to it in a way that couldn’t be done in another equally reasonable way, argues Dan Houck.

Scott McLemee reviews some of the university press titles inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic.

In Division III, game outcomes may matter less than the enrollment of male students, writes Jim Jump.

The real question should be whether the discrimination is legal and serves an educational purpose, writes David Karen.