Colleges Are Under Fire. They Must Learn How to Weather Attacks.

Why higher ed has become an easy target.

A Small Sum Can Make a Big Difference in Student Success

Whether someone graduates or drops out can come down to as little as a thousand dollars.

Read the Rest of the 2018 Trends Report

Our 2018 Trends Report outlines 10 key shifts in higher education, and offers case studies, analyses, and ideas to help college leaders stay informed.

Curriculum

What Gets Forgotten in Debates About the Liberal Arts

Career success for humanities majors doesn’t always depend on what those disciplines taught you. Sometimes, where you come from and what college you attended are what counts.

Faculty

U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Proposes Cutting 13 Programs, Mostly in Liberal Arts

Administrators cited the campus’s $4.5-million deficit and declining enrollment as reasons for the cuts, which, if carried out, could result in layoffs of tenured faculty members.

Accreditation

Purdue Gets Final Approval to Buy For-Profit Kaplan

Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue, announced the Higher Learning Commission’s decision on Monday.

The Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample.

First Person

Ghost Advising

The distressingly unsurprising story of what happens when prominent (usually male) dissertation advisers fail to do their job.

Advice

The Tough-Love Approach to Writing

No, doing a little outlining or editing during your “writing time” does not count as writing.

Lingua Franca

Trying to Like ‘Unlike’

A preposition-less, dangling-modifier usage of unlike is on the rise, says Ben Yagoda, who suggests that Bryan Garner include it in his next edition of Modern English Usage.