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Ensuring Aid Access for Foster Care Youth
Universal FAFSA requirements, data-sharing agreements and targeted scholarship programs are all policies that eliminate barriers to aid for students with foster care backgrounds, Mauriell H. Amechi writes.
The View From the Cheap Seats
It’s easy to shout from high in the bleachers, harder to play with the team: faculty need to be better prepared to participate meaningfully in shared governance, Rachel Toor writes.
Regional Comprehensive Universities: Separate and Unequal
The gaps in resources between flagships and regional comprehensive universities raise serious equity concerns and are at odds with commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, Doug Eskew writes.
Selective Admissions on Trial
The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action is yet another reminder that emulating Harvard is—and always has been—a fool’s errand, John R. Thelin and Richard W. Trollinger write.
Dealing With Graduate School Rejections
Applicants and programs need to improve rejection letters and how they are handled.
Higher Ed Under Threat
Attacks on public higher education are attacks on American democracy, Philip DiStefano writes.
College Mental Health Counselors Aren’t OK
Long-standing failures to invest adequately in college counseling centers have left mental health professionals burned out and feeling that their roles on campus are neither appreciated nor understood, Philip J. Rosenbaum and Richard E. Webb write.
‘The Ends of Knowledge’
What are the end points of our disciplines—and when, if ever, could we be done? Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King argue these are questions worth asking.