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Revamp the financial aid system? Robert Shireman says the Education Department might focus its energy in its last days on a less-ambitious but helpful goal: better URLs for its Web sites.

Newspapers keep abandoning any responsibility toward books. Scott McLemee looks back at print culture....

William Major writes that it's time to stop complaining about how students write, and to get more professors in the classroom.

Philosophers offer views -- ethical and practical -- on whether older scholars should be making room for new Ph.D.'s.

For the sake of students, Congress should require legislatures to maintain their funding of higher education, F. King Alexander writes.

Martha Kinney writes that she learned more about reaching poorly prepared students when she was in the military than in grad school.

We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A...

How the NCAA's academic rules for athletes play out on campuses is hugely influenced -- and complicated -- by each institution's own policies, writes Todd Diacon.