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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.
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.
Opinion
Free Speech and Anti-Blackness
If Carnegie Mellon values diverse views, it shouldn’t have condemned a Black professor’s tweet on Queen Elizabeth II’s death, write Branden D. Elmore and Dwayne K. Wright.
Why Did Allegheny Cut Its Chinese Program?
With little other information, the program’s lone tenured—now terminated—professor wonders if it’s about anti-Asian bias.
The Future of the NEH: Q&A With Chair Shelly Lowe
Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed about her goal for the National Endowment for the Humanities to reach more underrepresented communities in the U.S., her approach to leadership and her vision for the agency’s future.