Opinion

OK, so the blog has been on hiatus for a few days. I haven't. Quite the opposite. Since the weekend...

When I was very little, my mom took me down to the Mississippi to see a river barge that had...

Unless it is altered, legislation pending in Congress would negatively affect research universities, administrators and inventors alike, write Sheldon Steinbach and Bruce Wieder.

This time of year, community colleges suddenly get a lot more attractive. High school seniors who applied to college for...

If we are focused on improvement, we have to design a strategy for improvement. Although it is possible to have...

How do military reservists balance the two sides of being "citizen-soldiers"? Scott McLemee asks the researchers.

Adjuncts and Accreditation, Revisited Academic Cog and Lumpenprofessoriat posted some thoughtful pieces in response to my skepticism about using accreditation...

John W. Curtis defends the AAUP's approach to looking at changes in faculty salaries from year to year.