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A Viewer’s Guide to Today’s Supreme Court Hearing
As the Supreme Court hears two challenges to the Biden administration’s debt-cancellation plan, Nicholas Hillman offers a guide to the key issues at stake and what to listen for.
A Tale of 2 Rons
In waging war on higher education, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is following a playbook written by Ronald Reagan in California, Ethan W. Ris writes.
What the Accreditation Naysayers Don’t Understand
If you want a higher ed reboot, you’re going to need the accreditors, Lawrence Schall writes.
Advocacy Is Missing in College Applications
Counselors can do much more to help good students get into good colleges, writes John Morganelli Jr.
A Studied Ignorance
Scott McLemee reviews Peter Burke’s Ignorance: A Global History.
For Military and Higher Ed, a Shared Dilemma
With their challenges well aligned, higher ed and the military should work together to reduce the opportunity costs of volunteering for military service, Mike Haynie writes.
The Kids Aren’t All Right—but Hope Can Help
Colleges have a role in cultivating hopefulness in a generation of young people suffering the mental health effects of the pandemic and political conflict, Sian Beilock writes.
Be a Gate Opener, Not a Gatekeeper
We teach students the rules for applying to grad school—but what if we committed, equally, to rewriting the rules that have historically excluded many students, Michael A. Hunt asks.