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Terry Caesar wonders how the popular Web site has changed higher education and the way faculty members think about the suggestions they receive.

American higher education rallied to help colleges devastated by a natural disaster. Shouldn't it do likewise for a man-made one? Wick Sloane asks.

Government demands to know more about what’s going on in higher education are reasonable, but more data alone won’t improve colleges, write Larry Braskamp and Steven Schomberg.

When his course hit queer theory, Joshua Gunn relied on old-fashioned humanism to help his students understand -- and he considers the many implications of that strategy.

Doom and gloom laments appeal for reasons obvious and insidious, but they don't tell the real story, W. Robert Connor argues.

Universities that really want to hire nonwhite faculty should forget the diversity plans and get into the schools, Alan Contreras writes.

In the debut of a new column, a consultant for Eduventures, Kristin L. Greene, says there’s a lot more to mixing online and in-classroom instruction than just knowing that you have some of each.

America has lots of conservative pundits. But thinkers? Not so much. Scott McLemee recalls one of the few.