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Graduate Professionalization in the Age of Student Debt
The often unmanageable debt many Ph.D.s accrue necessitates a candid discussion of grad students' finances, training and potential career paths within and outside academe, writes Jennifer Torkelson.
The Empowered University
Despite the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic, we can and should keep hope alive through deliberate effort and commitment, write Freeman A. Hrabowski, Philip J. Rous and Sarah J. Shin.
End Legacy Admissions
Look at the number of seats legacy preferences get and compare them to Black applicants, writes Joseph Price.
Recruiting Chinese Students: A Review of the Problems
Xiaofeng Wan reviews the obstacles but offers reason to hope for the future.
L’Affaire Krug and Contemporary Wokeism
The controversy over a white professor passing herself off as Black reveals an underlying contradiction in how we view race, Peter C. Herman writes.
Colleges Can Help Resolve Our Racial Crisis
We must work to establish institutional cultures that look, feel and are as much as possible like the just world we profess to value, writes Larry E. Davis.
Why America Needs College Football
Essentializing college football might help get us through these uncharacteristically difficult times of great isolation, division and uncertainty, Matthew J. Mayhew and Musbah Shaheen contend.
What Higher Ed Could Learn From the Military
Bruce H. Lindsey, recently deputy commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, and Judith Wilde, a professor and former chief operating officer, provide three key tips for strategic crisis planning.