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Ending Racism Is Still a Civil Rights Issue
After the horrific murders in Charleston, Michelle Asha Cooper writes, will higher education and American society be ready for honest discussions about race?
Reinventing Sweet Briar
The college is going to need to consider numerous changes to thrive in the future, writes Alice Brown.
Crossing the Pond
William G. Durden, an American college president who is now a dean in Britain, considers the possibility that undergraduates from the U.S. may follow his path.
Kalief Browder, Student
The young man who took his life, scarred by three years in prison on charges that were dropped, was enrolled at Bronx Community College. Eduardo J. Marti reflects on the tragedy and the challenge in the Bronx and elsewhere.
Transcendental Medication
A historian of journalism's new book takes us back to the psychedelic… 1950s? Scott McLemee goes along for the trip.
The New McCarthyism
Jonathan Judaken describes what it's like to be attacked as anti-Israel by people who don't understand or don't want to understand your ideas and research.
When My Son Discovered RateMyProfessors.com
James F. McGrath describes how he gained perspective and lost anxiety over student evaluations, even on the website faculty members love to hate.
The Write Stuff
U of All People missed MOOC mania, but it's not too late for it to get on the bandwagon for low-residency, high-priced M.F.A. degrees, David Galef writes.