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Opinion

Why Shared Governance Is Breaking Down, and How to Fix It

The “pick your lane” approach with faculty owning curriculum and the administration owning the budget doesn’t work anymore, if it ever really did.

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Opinion

After an F-1 Visa Refusal, Colleges Can Do More

As visa refusal rates have risen, simply telling an admitted student they can reapply is insufficient.

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Opinion

Trump’s Latest Move Threatens Any College That Seeks to Promote Equality

The administration’s plan to revoke tax-exempt status from schools that offer Black or other minority students targeted support willfully distorts the law.

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Opinion

15 Years of Title IX Reform—Yet Campus Sexual Assault Remains Pervasive

Regardless of what happens next in Washington, the changes we need should start with sex education and changes to campus cultures.

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Opinion

Who Do You Want to Become?

Students know what college is for. Many of the sector’s critics do not.

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Opinion

Jason Arday’s Death Shouldn’t Affect Who Gets Hired Next

His story should not be used to further undermine efforts to diversify the faculty pipeline.

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Opinion

Faculty Should Lead Way in Responding to Compact 2.0

No university should respond to Secretary McMahon’s letter without significant faculty involvement.

A Taliban security guard carrying a weapon patrols a gate to Afghanistan's Kandahar University.
Opinion

What 5 Years of Taliban Rule Reveals About Authoritarianism and Higher Ed

Five years after the U.S. troop withdrawal, the Taliban is reshaping Afghanistan’s higher education institutions in its image.