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The most competitive colleges would benefit if they admitted some students largely by chance, writes Daniel R. Schwarz.

Kerri Shook shares lessons from her research into student perceptions of institutional efforts to recruit racially and ethnically diverse students.

Lucinda Coulter writes that future engineers and scientists need a robust English department, too.

Scott McLemee considers Onora O’Neill’s book A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication.

Colleges should expand online content plus campus visit opportunities, writes educational consultant Matthew Greene.

While shifting to open access is harder in the humanities, scholars should seize existing opportunities to archive papers in personal or institutional repositories, Rebecca Lea Morris writes.

Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.

Easier SAT reading both reflects and amplifies the decline in reading, writes Ben Paris.