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A Show of Solidarity
Faculty members back a K-12 teacher who distributed a list of terms about race and gender to high school students. Some say more of this kind of allyship is needed as public education faces divisive concepts and book bans amid teacher shortages.
Intellectuals at the Gate
The creator of a new podcast discusses the barriers the Ivy League erected to limit the number of Jewish students in the 1920s, and how the quota system has evolved since.
Opinion
When to Move the Annual Meeting
As discriminatory state laws proliferate, higher ed associations need policies to guide decisions on whether to relocate the annual meeting, Erin Hennessy writes.
After the China Initiative: Seeking Accountability
Their lives upended, two scholars targeted by the DOJ’s controversial anti-espionage program fight back in their own ways.
Black Enrollment Declines, Gaps Increase
A new report details disparities in academic outcomes for Black community college students.
Opinion
Black Student Borrowers Are Playing Catch-Up
Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan should be understood in the context of the GI Bill’s exclusionary legacy, Melvin Hines writes.
Opinion
Go Ahead, Assign ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’—in College
Harper Lee’s novel belongs on college-level syllabi for the very reasons it’s rightfully losing favor in secondary school curricula, Andrew Newman writes.
‘Living in the Language’
The University of Minnesota is offering student housing for residents who want to immerse themselves in learning Ojibwe or Dakota, two Native languages at risk of extinction.