Is delivering video courses and short quizzes all it takes to develop knowledge and skills?

America left poorly educated whites behind. Their votes were misguided but understandable.

Universities are caught between the urban/rural and liberal/conservative divides. Is there a way forward?

How Trump’s America looks to a largely Latino community-college class.

Across higher education, executive searches are growing in number and cost. Colleges and their governing boards should exercise caution before signing on the dotted line.

Eight presidents consider what they wish they had learned before taking the top job.

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On days like these, let your students instruct.

Intangibles are what make a campus a community, which is worth remembering as we try to bridge the divisions that the presidential race exposed.

His tax-reform plan holds the key to making college affordable again.

If students, alumni, board members, and other leaders pull together, they can help launch a renewal in the sector.

Matthew Clair on moral persuasion. Dalton Conley on academe's "Frankenstein." Jonathan Freedman on changing minds. Robert Greene II on what "public" means. Nell Irvin Painter on a social problem. Mark Bauerlein on shattering groupthink. Amy Kittelstrom on intellectual pride.

A college president identifies some of them and suggests a united front in response.

The tenured should not have a monopoly on publicly engaged scholarship.

The man who translated Piketty’s Capital on what we can — and can’t — learn from the German revolutionary.

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Those in the academy should focus on getting more women and faculty of color into the influential professorships. We can make the pipeline.

Is the academic-jobs crisis a boon to public culture?

In trying to appease the "relevance" and "bottom line" bandwagons, higher education has failed to nurture critical thinking.

How to carry on in a post-truth era.

Let’s not spend the next four years whining. Let’s raise our voices for justice, equity, and the liberation of the American psyche from the demons that haunted us in this election.

The Education Department will probably survive. Free college, not so much.