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Holding Data Up as a Mirror

As we begin a new academic year, institutional leaders should engage their campus communities in honest, data-driven conversations about what to do better, argues Bonita J. Brown.

While You Were Out This Summer

Surprised at some of the changes you see on your campus as you return from the summer? David Galef provides a tongue-in-cheek review of what's taken place.

Scabbing on Our Future Selves

Joseph G. Ramsey reflects on grad students’ earlier efforts to unionize, arguing that those students who simply accepted low pay and few benefits were helping their own longed-for tenure-track jobs to disappear.

Unmanageable Quagmire or Elegant Distinction?

Natasha Baker analyzes the potential impact of the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on graduate assistants' right to unionize at Columbia University.

Fundamental Trump

Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.

Understudied Barriers to Transfer

These three barriers to transfer student completion deserve more attention, argue Davis Jenkins and John Fink.

HBCUs’ Self-Imposed Leadership Struggles

How can historically black colleges and universities recruit innovative leaders when board members and some HBCU community members fear innovation and change?

Free Speech? Now, That’s Offensive!

A significant -- and vocal -- contingent of students increasingly regards free speech as nothing more than a weapon of the rich, the powerful and the privileged, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder.