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The Real Cost Equation
To understand rising tuition rates, focus less on colleges and more on broad economic trends, write Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman.
Perils of Presidential Parallels
Robert Schmuhl writes about how he tries to engage the public with nonpartisan analysis based on scholarship -- and manages to offend all sides.
Re-sorting Responsibilities
The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
Late-Breaking Developments...
The C.L.R. James Library stands fast -- and Amazon launches the digital pamphlet. Scott McLemee reports.
Antioch's Choice
Antioch College, emerging from the ashes of its involuntary auto de fé, plans to appoint a new president shortly and...
Campus Talk: 'What It Is'?
The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between...
The Nutty Professor
In an excerpt from his new book, Robert Klose wonders where eccentric faculty members have gone.