The NCAA's New Leader Goes on the Offensive

Mark Emmert is moving quickly to bring change to college sports. Some colleges, especially those with smaller, poorer programs, are feeling left behind.

Academic Job Market Improves, but Angst Remains

Many disciplines aren't celebrating yet, however.

It's a Buyer's Market for Colleges Hiring Junior Faculty

Ph.D. and master's graduates from elite universities are taking faculty positions at less-prominent institutions.

'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas

A seemingly playful alternative to grades and degrees is taking hold in open-education circles.

Hoping to Foster the Next Silicon Valley, New York Taps Into Technion-Israel's Expertise

The Israeli institute, now a partner in a new tech campus, turned its hometown into the engine of a rapidly expanding high-tech economy.

Colleges Help Alumni of Foster Care Build a Solid Future

Western Michigan University is building an innovative program to make welcome those students who were raised in foster care.

Case Puts Researchers' Confidentiality Pledges on Trial

A legal battle over oral-history records housed at Boston College casts light on how little legal weight pledges of confidentiality to research subjects actually have.

Surge in Journal Retractions May Mask a Decline in Actual Problems

More and more articles are being flagged, but the increase may be due to greater digital vigilance.

At Paul Quinn, Students Till the Soil to Build a Better College

Community projects like a vegetable garden are a way to nurture hope at the financially troubled institution.

Wired Campus: E-Textbooks Saved Many Students Only $1

Despite the promise that digital textbooks would cost less than printed materials, a study found that was just barely so.

Unemployment Varies by College Major, Study Finds

Recent graduates in nontechnical fields of study, such as the arts and humanities, faced higher unemployment rates.

Expert on Access Takes Over as Education Dean at Michigan State U.

Donald Heller, who directed Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education, was sought for his research on low-income students and his technical skills.

College in China Loses Face Over Statues Depicting Donors as Goddesses

The college commissioned a pair of statues bearing the likenesses of two prominent donors.

Big Picture: Glimpses of Life in Academe From Around the World

A Musical Intervention

A multimillion-dollar project to save traditional expressions of music from around the world reflects a shift in ethnomusicology.

Buddhism Without the Hocus-Pocus

Is a fully secular, naturalistic understanding of Buddhism possible? For the sake of human happiness, it's worth finding out.

The Conservative Mind

It is most active when reactive, political history suggests.

Diss 'Like'

It's, like, not a verbal tic. It's an epidemic, symptomatic of our thought-thin, blathering age.

Close Encounters

Mind your step, or you might trip over students' psychic baggage.

Schizophrenia in Deep Focus

A documentary filmmaker points his camera at his own family.

Philosophy in Nevada Is Alive and Well, but for How Long?

The University of Nevada at Las Vegas needs "to face squarely the attitudes--the external ones ... that place philosophy departments under threat."

University Presses' Commitment to Translation

It's Time for the NCAA to Get It Right

As the association considers sweeping changes to college sports, two experts offer ideas to put the focus on what is best for students rather than corporate interests.

Forget Executives, the AAUP Should Turn to Grass-Roots Leaders

Our brightest future will not be realized by executives in central offices. It will be realized by professors taking leadership to redirect public policy.

What's Wrong With College Sports? Here's What You Said

Readers weighed in on what they would do to fix the current system.

Virtue and Idealism Are No Match for Sports Revenue

"It's not that we haven't been aware of what was happening."

Is the Candidate Smarter Than This Form?

"If a program wants quantitative ratings, why not ask for high-quality data?"

New Cause for Protesters: Community Colleges

"If student protesters want to do something constructive, they should lobby state legislatures to allow community colleges to cover the second two years of baccalaureate...

OK, Let's Teach Graduate Students Differently. But How?

What should graduate teaching look like when it aims to prepare students for a range of careers?