Opinion

Graduate students and junior professors need to navigate relationships in departments where people may not like to admit that hierarchies exist, writes Nate Kreuter.

By Nate Kreuter

Horror in Happy Valley, Not-So-Happy Valley, Happy Valley Upside Down - journalists everywhere are tilling the furrow between Penn State University's amber waves of grain and its shower stalls.

By UD and University Diaries

Four women involved in providing services for women on campuses respond to a recent essay criticizing the Education Department's guidance on responding to reports of sexual assaults.

By Scott Jaschik

What does it mean to “support” a program?

By Dean Dad

I’ve just spent an hour online looking at messenger bags with my son. When he was getting ready to start high school, we bought him a new bag, a more “grown-up” looking bag, a messenger bag that could hold his laptop and all his books. He carried it proudly to school, slung over his shoulder with all his school supplies carefully stowed in all of the pockets.

By Libby Gruner

The learning management system (LMS) has become our academic Rorschach test. We all see different things when looking at the same LMS platforms.

By Joshua Kim

The new Steve Jobs biography details the Apple co-founder's plans to disrupt the textbook industry. But just how disruptive were his plans?

By Audrey Watters

An NPR story, this morning, reported on the Keystone XL pipeline, protests against it in Washington, and a surprising alliance forming against it in Nebraska. Of course, they felt obligated to let TransCanada -- the pipeline company proposing to build Keystone XL -- have its say.

By G. Rendell