Stop the Generational Moralizing About Free Speech

The case for free speech must be made with appropriate sensitivity to the perspective of its critics.

Free Speech on Campus, and Its Limits

Unguarded speech on social media and on campuses can lead to all kinds of grief. Here’s how colleges have become tangled in debates over free speech when professors and students speak out.

Teaching

When Students Aren’t as Prepared as They Look on Paper

The problem of academic preparation touches every corner of academe.

Admissions & Student Aid

Demographic Changes as Destiny in College Admissions? It’s Complicated

Projected shifts in the applicant pool prompt doom-and-gloom predictions at many institutions. But Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College, says the forecast varies from campus to campus.

Technology

Repeal of Net-Neutrality Rules Disappoints Higher-Ed Associations

The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow internet-service providers to favor some types of online traffic over others could hurt research and instruction, college groups say.

Data

Tuition and Fees, 1998-99 Through 2017-18

A newly updated sortable and searchable table shows the “sticker prices” — published tuition and required fees — at more than 3,000 colleges and universities for the 2017-18 academic year, with historical data back to 1998.

Advice

Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly

Be brave enough to put your ideas into the world unadorned by all the bad habits you picked up in grad school.

Lingua Franca

The Fine Line Between Errors and Dialect Differences

Geoff Pullum wrestles with the sentence “Imagine if I hadn’t of been there!”