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It’s housing selection season, which means the same predictable rhythm is playing out on campuses across the country: Students compare floor plans, groups debate who’s living…

When the University of Texas at Austin closed its Center for Teaching and Learning earlier this year, it joined a very small group (6 percent) of high-research-activity…

Last year, after finally publishing a paper I had been working on for months, I did something I had never done before: I printed it out,…

Faculty often struggle to find sustained time and support for scholarly writing. But the barriers many face—competing responsibilities, uneven service burdens, caregiving demands and inefficient institutional…

As a student, I always pictured myself teaching, writing on chalkboards, mentoring students and having the freedom to pursue intellectual curiosity. I imagined this career long before…

In the fall of 1997, the political scientist John J. Mearsheimer delivered the annual “Aims of Education” address to the entering class at the University of…

Last year, one of us, Peter, was applying for teaching positions. I was at the end of a three-year teaching postdoc at the University of British…

When I started writing a book about early college and dual enrollment five years ago, my proposed title was High School for Young Hamiltons (neither my…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced this month that the Department of Defense will no longer send active-duty military for graduate-level professional military education at Harvard…

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to every college and university president with the goal of continuing its efforts to curb…