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Resisting the Panopticon
It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.
Veterans Day, November 2021
Wick Sloane’s annual survey of highly selective colleges reveals they enroll few undergraduate veterans (if they take the time to reply at all).
Black and Brown Students Want Black and Brown Mentors. What’s a Primarily White Institution to Do?
S. Brooke Vick from Muhlenberg College shares three ways mentoring efforts can support students of color.
How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’
Constraints on discussions of important social issues, however sensitive, subvert the goals of a liberal arts education, write David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler.
Who Comes After Dorian Abbot?
If the standards the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used in his case are applied broadly, it could have unfortunate repercussions for many other academics, argues Alex Small.
Becoming Clickbait for Speaking Out
Phoebe Cohen describes being targeted for voicing her views about the Dorian S. Abbot controversy.
It’s Time to Abolish the SAT
It’s time to stop pushing for test-optional admissions policies, writes Christopher Rim. Instead, we should abandon the test and the College Board should eliminate it.
Far and Away
During the pandemic, people should stop asking international students “when will you go back home?” writes Gloria Paidamoyo Chikaonda.