Opinion

Cathy Marie Ouellette offers the insights she has gained as a new department chair during the pandemic.

Ralph A. Gigliotti shares the results of a new study that reveals that the disruptions of the recent months have significantly exacerbated the challenges beleaguering department chairs.

Enrollment and tuition and fee data reinforce our anecdotal sense that students seeking community college credentials face the biggest problems, Sandy Baum writes.

Colleges provide many benefits that are central to American democracy, chief among them their role in mitigating authoritarian preferences and attitudes, writes Anthony P. Carnevale.

Shoba Subramanian explores the professional challenges international grad students and postdocs continue to face -- and offers some advice to them as well as their academic colleagues.

Maggie P. Fay thinks about Varsity Blues, community colleges and the unequal application of academic standards.