The presidents of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges offer special insights on today’s education news and issues and trends in higher education. In our rapidly evolving, often contentious national culture, these men and women offer perspectives informed by their proximity to the front lines of American higher education.

Collegenews.org provides a forum for presidents of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges to comment on the most urgent and high-profile issues in higher education facing the country today. Recent topics have included the role of liberal arts colleges in shaping moral values, a topic of special concern in recent years; priorities in higher education for the next U.S. President; views on the popular and proliferating phenomenon of college rankings; and perspectives on the Patriot Act, among other topics.

For a list of topics and access to the presidents' remarks, see the navigation column to the left.