Filter & Sort
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actions Now, Consequences Later
Yes, higher ed has problems, but future generations will not thank us if we tear down the system, David R. Harris writes.
The Agenda Behind Accreditation ‘Reform’
Accreditation does need reform, but the Trump administration seeks to weaponize it to push an impoverished vision for higher ed, Jeremy D. Penn writes.
A Return to Racial Quotas in Admission?
The Trump administration seems to view “too many” Black and Hispanic students at a selective college as cause for suspicion, David Hawkins writes.
What AI Can’t Read: Ambiguities and Silences
By using AI for a task for which it is particularly ill-equipped—analyzing the testimony of Holocaust survivors—students deepen their own thinking, Jan Burzlaff writes.