Eight reasons to worry about higher education’s future.

Optimizing the course schedule.

The rise and fall of age as American society’s underlying principle of psychological understanding and social organization.

Why those outside literature departments should assign more fiction.

What should a purpose-driven, broadly inclusive secular university look like?

What video games can teach us about instructional design and educational psychology.

The history that lies beyond pure fact.

The history that lies beyond pure fact.

As new ideas, concepts and terminologies circulate, the humanities evolve. Our challenge is to convince a broad public that the next generation of humanities speaks to their interests and concerns.

As new ideas, concepts and terminologies circulate, the humanities evolve. Our challenge is to convince a broad public that the next generation of humanities speaks to their interests and concerns.

The secrets are not a secret.

The secrets are not a secret.

Can we teach resilience, persistence and a growth mind-set? We can and we must.

Should colleges ditch the costly four-year straitjacket?

Ten simple strategies to reduce academic dishonesty that don’t rely on students’ ethics.

Second thoughts about John Guillory’s sociological critique of the English profession—and its implications for other humanities disciplines.

Objectivity and balance aren’t plausible, attainable, or desirable academic goals. But scholarly debate over interpretations is.

How research campuses can better serve an increasingly diverse student body.

We mustn’t flinch when tough issues or heated controversies arise.

How to teach about power, inequality, privilege, stratification and bias in ways that are fair-minded, responsible, respectful and unbiased.