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Opinion

A Call for College Application Innovation

AI opens up new avenues to allow applicants to present themselves creatively, Brennan Barnard writes.

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NIL Risks Entrenching Gender Inequities

NIL promised new opportunities for female athletes, but without action the benefits will keep flowing disproportionately to men, Ajah Hawley-Alexander writes.

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Constructive Engagement

Mark Zupan recounts a constructive exchange with an alumnus and higher ed critic.

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They Don’t Want to Learn About the Middle East

Being canceled by my hometown library speaks to the incredible breadth of censorship faced by Middle East scholars, Alex Boodrookas writes.

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This Will Not Be a Normal Summer

Faculty may want a break, but the architects of the assault on higher ed won’t be breaking and neither should we, Jennifer Lundquist and Kathy Roberts Forde write.

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It’s Not 2008 Anymore

With recession risks rising, higher ed faces very different circumstances than it did during the Great Recession, Daniel A. Collier and Michael Kofoed write.

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Opinion

Decision Days

Low-income students have the most to lose if current proposals to gut student aid and access programs become law, William Craft writes.

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Turing’s Milestone, Graduation’s Microphone

The Class of 2025 is entering a world fundamentally changed by AI—so Matthew Brophy proposes sending them off with an AI-authored commencement speech.