Opinion

A couple of viral videos caught my eye and reminded me of my first semester as a teacher.

Sometimes, when I try to get my mind around what it will take to make Greenback (or, indeed, any college or university) an exemplar of sustainability, I gets overwhelmed. It's still necessary, because if we don't know what we're trying to achieve then we can't tell whether we're making progress or not. And simplistic, one-dimensional goals can be worse than no goal at all.

I became a zombie and rediscovered my own humanity.

Canada’s Waterloo University is shutting down after failing to make enrollment targets in Dubai at the same time that George Mason University is going to give it another go in Korea after a failed venture in the United Arab Emirates. What makes the desire for a foreign outpost so appealing?

Has November become the month for student protests over budget cuts and tuition hikes? Scott McLemee reports on developments in London -- and closer to home.

To keep perfectionism in check, you need to understand your habits and attitudes, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore.

While attending college, a traditionally aged student makes the remarkable transformation from an adolescent to a young adult, and such rapid growth requires courage. Therefore, in addition to encouraging a student to write, speak and think like an adult, colleges must attend to a student’s need for courage.

Two of the major trends in higher education are on a collision course with each other. But their respective partisans don’t seem to notice.