Ryan Boyd considers two new books on higher education....

Richard Eldridge reviews “Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses.”...

Ryan Boyd reviews “The Missing Course” by David Gooblar....

A new book projects a bleak future for US higher education....

Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”...

“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book....

Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx review John Thelin’s “Going to College in the Sixties.”...

Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”...

What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?...

A review of three trenchant critiques of the culture of metrics....

Michael Meranze reviews Stefan Collini’s “Speaking of Universities.”...

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon review Christopher Newfield’s new book on public universities....

Will Michael Crow’s “New American University” help re-democratize the US or continue a trend of universities ratifying social inequality and wind up on a dust heap of halfway measures?...

“Our failing colleges” got the A-side listing. The B-side, “our failing pragmatism: how a market focus hurt college learning” — never got played....

ONE OF THE GREAT CLAIMS of American higher education is that it protects and encourages something called “academic freedom,” a guarantee of protection for teachers and students to engage in free inquiry and exchange no matter how inconvenient or unpopular the ...

The public has a right to know what politicians and business leaders are really doing to their higher education systems, why they are doing it, and how to respond....