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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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Opinion

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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Opinion

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."
Opinion

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.
Opinion

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.

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Opinion

About That FIRE Study

The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes.

A photo of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, throwing T-shirts at the crowd upon arriving for a speaking event at Utah Valley University; behind him is a tent that reads "The American Comeback/Prove Me Wrong." Kirk was shot and killed during the event.
Opinion

A Better Model for Campus Dialogue

The killing of Charlie Kirk highlights the need for universities to foster counter-polarizing dialogue, not commodified debates, Cherian George writes.