Nov. 24, 2023

Israel, Hamas, and the contradictions of college administrators.

It’s one of the rare places where people who might have little in common are asked to learn together, and from one another.

In two years, UVA-Wise lost more than half of its campus organizations. Is betting big on amenities and staff the key to bringing them back?

Will courts continue to trust professors? The jury is out.

Texts and emails made public as part of a defamation lawsuit detail behind-the-scenes attempts by students, faculty, and alumni to draw attention to the professor.

Arkansas public colleges are subject to a state law that targets the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement. Similar laws exist elsewhere, but few affect colleges.

The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination wants to create a federally funded “American Academy,” paid for by taxing the richest colleges.

While the worth of a humanities degree has been called into question in recent years, a new state-by-state analysis shows its earning power is stronger than what many people think, with an unemployment rate similar to graduates in other fields.

The Israel-Hamas war has empowered higher-ed benefactors. That’s distressing.

On the autonomization of protest culture.

Professors have always preferred to teach content over skills. But shifting that focus might just revive our graduate programs.

It is time to shift how higher ed talks about, pays, and makes use of presidents, provosts, and deans who return to the faculty.