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BHL on COVID
Scott McLemee reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy's The Virus in the Age of Madness.
Do Colleges Need a Chief Diversity Officer?
When strategically and purposely positioned, funded and supported, such senior administrators can play a vital role in higher education institutions today, writes Eugene T. Parker III.
A Farewell Letter to DEI Work
Such departments, centers and divisions are spaces of impossibility -- they can't do the things they are tasked with, as they are not empowered to hold people accountable, writes Tatiana McInnis.
It’s Time to Help Students Vote in a Pandemic
While colleges must avoid partisanship, they should do everything they can to ensure that students get all the information they need to participate in the upcoming election, writes Gary Orfield.
Party Like Your Life Depends on It
To safely reopen this fall, faculty and staff must reinforce social norms that capitalize on students' natural tendency to want to do the right thing, argues Brendan Cushing-Daniels.
The Disciplinary Trench
What if there were no academic departments? David V. Rosowsky and Bridget M. Keegan explore the possibilities.
Advancing Equity in the Investment Sector
As college leaders reflect on their institutions’ roles in perpetuating systemic racism, they should consider where endowment funds are invested, Kerin McCauley writes.
O-Rings, Groupthink and Campus Reopenings
College officials figuring out how to bring students back to campus resemble the Challenger engineers tasked with building a rocket to fit political considerations, Janet Murray argues.