| Enrollment By Lee Gardner With no standard definition of what makes an honors college, efforts range from thriving scholarly communities to underfunded programs with few real offerings. |
| Guns on Campus By Katherine Mangan Day-care centers, disciplinary hearings, and faculty offices are among the settings where Texas and Georgia have wrestled over whether to allow guns. |
| Re:Learning By Corinne Ruff MOOC sequences that lead to certificates can also be the ticket into some master’s programs. Educators say that’s one way of easing barriers and cutting costs for students. |
| The Ticker Are you a professor or college official who has a horror story about dealing with forms, statements, proposals, reports, or rubrics? We want to hear it. |
| The Chronicle Review By Joseph Luzzi Today’s literary scholars can learn from the generalist Erich Auerbach. |
| Lingua Franca Some grammar purists seem to think the English subjunctive is a fragile creature in danger of extinction. As usual they can't tell their adjective from their elbow, says Geoff Pullum. |
| Commentary By Alice P. Gast The visa difficulties of a British expert in tropical parasitology show that American policy makers must find a way for scientists to travel to the United States as freely as they do elsewhere. |
| ProfHacker ProfHacker's Natalie M. Houston offers tips for managing the endless flow of email. |
| Vitae My top five books on teaching and learning in academe. |
