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Defenders of the controversial professor are undercutting the values they say they want to protect, writes Anne D. Neal.

The demise of a unique liberal arts college reflects a series of lamentable trends in higher education, writes Cary Nelson.

Many professors see institutional work as a distraction from research and teaching. They and their colleges must change that, Jim Lakso and Jim Tuten write.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg says there could have been another approach -- more fitting to an educational institution -- to the Marilee Jones case.

The late Richard Rorty was a pragmatist philosopher and a generous soul. Scott McLemee looks back....

When enormously wealthy individuals give millions to enormously wealthy universities, it's time to stop calling it philanthropy, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.

Terry Caesar considers networks, knowing the "right people," and prestige real and imagined.

The Education Department's pressure on colleges to use quantitative measures of student learning is getting ahead of the needed research, Bernard Fryshman writes.