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Jim Jump considers the implications of the university's decision to stop requiring the essay portion of the test.

Maybe now is the time to reform admissions for the better, writes Nicholas Soodik.

We must change hiring practices to produce racially and ethnically diverse faculties, argues Estela Mara Bensimon.

Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes.

Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.

When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events?

These new technologies have much to offer colleges and their students, but if we are not careful how we incorporate them, the risks may outweigh the gains, Vincent Del Casino Jr. writes.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley says California’s online community college will be a better public alternative to for-profit colleges for the “stranded workers” traditional college systems struggle to serve.