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Providing More Transparent College Pricing

Prospective students need better pricing information earlier in their college search process, Phillip Levine writes.

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The Big Chill

The federal funding freeze highlights the outsize role academic medical centers play in shaping their institutions, John R. Thelin and Neal H. Hutchens write.

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A Left, Not Libertarian, Defense of Free Speech

Joseph J. Fischel and Kyler Chittick argue that the academic left has ceded too much of the moral high ground when it comes to free speech.

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Opinion

Redefining What We Mean by Equitable AI

Higher ed has an important role to play in pushing for a broader understanding of equitable AI, Meacie Fairfax writes.

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Scapegoating DEI: Silence Is Complicity

President Trump’s attacks on DEI are damaging and dehumanizing, DeRionne P. Pollard writes.

President Donald Trump, seated in the Oval Office, holds up an executive order signed on Jan. 20, 2025, the day of his inauguration.

Leaders in the Foxhole

Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change.

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Against the Assessment Regime

Our approach to assessment not only distracts from good teaching—it can even distort educational goals, Patrick J. Casey argues.

A drawing illustrating the concept of the panopticon, a design concept for prisons featuring a central watchtower from which guards can see into all the cells, but the prisoners can't see if they are being watched.

The Panopticon, Old and New

Scott McLemee considers the panopticon’s persistence in (semi-)popular culture as an inescapable metaphor.