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President Trump, standing in front of an American flag and speaking into a microphone, holds a booklet that says "Foreign Trade Barriers" at an April 2 White House event.

Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Tariffs and Higher Ed

Tariffs will likely put more pressure on financial aid budgets even as income inequality can be expected to grow, Catharine Hill writes.

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Course Correction

Asking students to interview faculty before they sign up for classes is a practice more colleges should try, Nicolaus Mills writes.

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Opinion

What’s So Conservative About Civics, Anyway?

Eric Hartman asks how colleges can move civics education beyond this hyperpartisan moment.

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Opinion

The Ed Department Hasn’t Even Begun to Fight

Thanks in part to Biden-era regulatory changes, the Trump administration has a powerful set of tools it could use to threaten institutional eligibility for federal student loans, Jonathan Helwink writes.

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RIP Landscape: Why Did College Board Kill Its Best Admissions Product?

The end of Landscape is a loss for efforts to broaden economic diversity, Julie J. Park writes.

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From Data to Action

Accreditors have a role to play in helping colleges make better use of the data they collect, Maria Toyoda writes.

A scene of the Utah Valley University event after the shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10: a few people mill around the tent under which he had been speaking, which bears the words "American Comeback Tour: Prove Me Wrong."

How Witnessing Violence Impacts Brain Development—and What Colleges Can Do

Helping students make meaning of what they’ve witnessed, and the larger societal context, may actually help the brain heal, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Kori Street write.

Charlie Kirk holds a microphone while speaking at a Turning Point USA event in 2024.

A Lecture for—and With—Charlie Kirk 

Matthew Boedy, one of hundreds of professors who found himself on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, searches for common ground in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.