Opinion

Robert Weir offers a guide for first-year students on how their excuses will be understood by their professors.

Pennsylvania attorney general shutters "diploma mill" and launches litigation offensive against the owner.

Ruth Haberle writes that junior faculty members all get placed in one of three categories, and she's happy about where she ended up.

Reports bemoan the lack of language proficiency, but businesses and students may be telling us something different, John V. Lombardi argues.

A new book by Marouf Hasian analyzes the arguments for and against military tribunals. Scott McLemee listens in.

Hugo Schwyzer write about the worst part of a new semester: turning away students from classes that are full.

Scott McLemee talks with Astra Taylor about her documentary on the theoretical wildman of the Balkans.

Anthea Butler explores why and how she will add material on Katrina to her courses on black religion and on fundamentalism.