Opinion

Dorothea Salo has an interesting post at the Book of Trogool. She wonders about the mission of academic libraries, and...

By Barbara Fister

Much like new parking stickers, greetings from the dean, freshman orientation, long lines at the campus bookstore, and the reception...

By Kenneth C. Green

Like many who enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love, I’m excited to see the film, but wary, since...

By Aeron Haynie

In international higher education, we are judged by the company we keep. Thus, it is of great importance that universities...

By Philip G. Altbach

I was thinking, over my second cup of coffee, just how blunt, accusatory, vehement, vituperative, vicious is the verbiage used...

By G. Rendell

Last winter semester, I didn’t teach. It was by choice, but it was a choice that dates back to 2001...

By Guest blogger, Lee Skallerup, writing from Kentucky in the U

I’ve come to the end of a three-week writing retreat. My husband and I have both been working on writing...

By Liz Stockwell

Professors can help the job market if some of them refuse to accept more doctoral candidates, writes Monica J. Harris. That's what she's doing.

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