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Ethical College Admissions: DACA
Don’t listen to the politicians. DACA students are not taking spots that would go to others, writes Jim Jump.
What Admissions Officers Know (and Don't Know) About Military Service
A problem, some solutions -- and a quiz.
Rethinking Educational Access
Higher education can no longer focus only on young people and preparation for life, writes Arthur Levine. We need to expand our vision to include reskilling and upskilling Americans across their whole lifespan.
When Do You Feel Smart?
What would it look like, Christopher S. Travers asks, if we celebrated the effort, growth and resiliency of black men just as much as we did their GPAs?
Koch Institute to Conservatives: Don’t Be Snowflakes
Conservatives are giving in to the same fragility of which they so freely accuse their liberal counterparts, argues Sarah Ruger.
OER: Bigger Than Affordability
Open education resources can catalyze a much-needed national conversation about what we mean by “public” higher education, Robin DeRosa writes.
We Demand…
In We Demand: The University and Student Protests, Roderick A. Ferguson's understanding of the campus activism of the 1960s and ’70s rests on a clear sense of the university as a crucial part of the social machine, writes Scott McLemee.
The Need for Slower Administrators
Senior administrators seem to be required to be busy at all times, and that has created the unfortunate situation where they are often isolated from faculty and staff members, argues Thomas J. Pfaff.