By Carol Geary Schneider

By David Tritelli

By Azar Nafisi
Imaginative knowledge provides us with a way to see ourselves in the world, to relate to the world, and thereby, to act in the world.

By Richard Florida
The United States is currently undergoing a dramatic economic transformation, shifting from an economy based on physical inputs to one based on intellectual inputs, or human creativity. What is the role of colleges and universities in the creative age?

By Barbara Lawton
With broad commitment and bold leadership, the LEAP campaign can help inform how government and educational institutions evolve to support citizens’ success in this time of flux, drive development of appropriate metrics to measure their effectiveness and assign responsibility for meeting those goals, and invite unprecedented partnerships to sustain them.

By Peter A. Facione
Senior academic leaders are in consensus that, for purposes of tenure, a candidate’s significant contributions to collaborative scholarship should be valued highly. But operationally, what counts as a potentially significant contribution? An informal survey of senior-level academic administrators explored the nature and significance of individual contributions to collaborative scholarship.

By William M. Reichert
The biomedical engineering program at Duke University has lately succeeded in solving one of the most persistent problems in math, science, and engineering graduate education: the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority doctoral students.

By Michael Mendelson
As he reflects on his experience, a learning community coordinator is troubled by a gap between the official success of the learning community initiative on his campus and his own lingering disappointment. Could his disappointment signify a general challenge to the broader learning community movement itself?