Opinion

Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...

You know me. I’m a hardnosed intellectual, critic, and person of science, just like you. But Valentine’s Day is tricky—...

Three of them come to mind right away, three sensitive, eager, smart literary scholars in the making in my literature...

Victor E. Ferrall Jr. writes that these institutions are vital to society -- and need to replace their sales pitches with arguments and policies that are more true to their missions.

A long-suffering correspondent writes: I have taught for now nearly two decades in a smaller field in liberal arts and...

If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting. What most of us have...

It’s said that the modern university consists of a large number of academic and administrative departments united by a common...

Erik M. Jensen thinks it's time for professors to start dressing like professors, and he has some fashion rules to share.