Views

A new collection documents the American policy of cruel and inhumane "non-torture." Scott McLemee takes a look.

Jonathan Deutsch shares his recent online discussion with a company promising to find him the perfect distance education program.

For all the frustrations students sometimes give their professors, Christopher Phelps writes of the way some of them inspire.

Leonard V. Kaplan, a faculty member who was ensnared in a controversy over remarks he says were misreported, reflects on the larger issues for academe raised by the fracas.

The colleges considering leaving the NCAA’s nonscholarship competitive level risk hurting their institutions and turning off students, W. Kent Barnds writes.

An unfilmable novel about literary life hits the cineplex. Scott McLemee interviews the author.

Debra Carney considers the lessons of coaching students in Cambodia and the United States.

If in the name of accountability, higher education is forced to focus obsessively on reducing expenses, the results won't yield the kind of institutions Americans want and need, writes William G. Durden.