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Ethical College Admissions: Recruit to Reject?
Harvard's strategies raise tough questions, writes Jim Jump.
Contagious Skepticism
Scott McLemee reviews Bernice L. Hausman's Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy.
Teaching Through the Doom
Christopher Schaberg and Ned Randolph, two New Orleans professors, reflect on teaching in precarious geographies, in precarious times.
Curing Programmitis to Create Diverse Student Success
Transformational change -- a total restructuring -- is needed to disrupt embedded patterns and reorient campuses for a new student body, argues Adrianna Kezar.
‘Ground Control to Major Tom…’
William Kuskin discusses the early results from his institution's effort to pilot an at-scale affordable degree.
The Limitations of Need-Blind Admissions
As much as finances should not matter in making an admissions decision, they should matter when we work to create an equitable and accessible educational experience, Lara Tiedens argues.
Improved Grading Makes Classrooms More Equitable
While faculty members believe that their practices are fair and objective, a closer look reveals that they are anything but, argues Joe Feldman.
Ethical College Admissions: Harvard's Preferences
Jim Jump reviews a paper on how the university treats athletes, legacies and others.