Free Speech

Faculty, staff and administrative efforts to build trust can help make college students feel understood.

How precollege experiences and students’ identities shape the challenges they face and connections they make in postsecondary education.

Institutions are tweaking campus information systems to make them better reflect students’ gender identities but are finding the technology to do so challenging.

A Penn State professor says he was protecting pro–vaccine mandate demonstrators when he struggled with a counterprotester. The professor was vindicated in court, but Penn State wants to fire him anyway.

The surveys highlighting it among students provide no definitive evidence of repression and, in fact, may actually show strong levels of free speech and diversity on campuses, argues John K. Wilson.

Student observations about campus communities, advocacy activity and career-prep catch-up.

Creating a more diverse campus must include fostering a sense of belonging, writes DEI administrator Mary Ann Villarreal.

Normal? Not exactly—but academic, social and wellness realities this semester have pointed in a positive direction for many students.