College admission tests are becoming a thing of the past.
A shared picture of a student reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf upset some Stanford University students. The response of the institution has now come under scrutiny.
Academic Freedom, Diversity, Threats Against Faculty
Indiana University Northwest fired a Black professor after alleging he said something about killing white people. An AAUP report found “racist tropes of incompetent, angry and physically violent Black men in the language used to justify his dismissal.”
Admissions
Programs grow, and thus far, colleges and companies declare that they are succeeding. Yield rates remain uncertain.
The Federal Student Aid ombudsman fielded nearly 90,000 complaints in 2022—more than double the previous year. Nearly two-thirds of the complaints were about issues with loans.
Views
Florida’s decision to reject a new Advanced Placement class on African American studies raises unsettling questions, Lynn Pasquerella and Mary Dana Hinton write.
Career Advice
A career is only part of life, writes Victoria McGovern. When you look back someday, what else would you want to see that you have done?
Blogs
Confessions of a Community College Dean
January 30, 2023
Applying institutional graduation rates to individual students does real damage.
Learning Innovation
January 29, 2023
A conversation with David W. Lewis, co-editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing and dean emeritus of the IUPUI University Library.
Higher Ed Gamma
January 29, 2023
Have academic professionalization and specialization harmed the study of literature?
