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Americans have no monopoly on crises of national identity. Scott McLemee takes off to the Great White North....

Devoney Looser considers what to say when your academic specialty is suddenly capturing public attention.

Risa Gorelick describes her nightmare upon the theft of her intellectual (and other) property.

An op-ed this week on transfer of credit worried more about the burdens on registrars than the needs of students or taxpayers, Elise Scanlon and Roger Williams argue.

As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.

Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.

The controversy over the push for standardized tests obscures the success and potential of faculty-driven systems to measure student learning, writes Donna Engelmann.