Filter & Sort
Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies Make Higher Ed Less Safe
As anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-DEI legislation proliferates, colleges can no longer rely on old strategies to support students, Margaux Cowden writes.
Preference for Privilege
As new data make all the more clear, we should be ashamed of the ways in which elite college admissions privilege children of the wealthy, Jim Jump writes.
A Change of Control
New regulations take aim at self-dealing and other abuses in for-profit–to–not-for-profit conversions, Kyle Southern and Carolyn Fast write.
‘On Bullshit’ and AI
The rise of generative AI heralds the dawn of a golden age for bullshit in education, A. G. Elrod writes.
Climate Optimism in an Anxious Classroom
To reach more students, environmental sciences and studies should rework curricula to focus more on solutions, not (just) problems, Stephen Porder writes.
Let’s Talk About Menopause
Higher ed can do far more to support its students, faculty and staff through the menopause transition, Karen Costa writes.
What Algorithms Say About Affirmative Action
Race-blind approaches risk obscuring important information, Rachel Hong writes.
The Beating Heart of Gen Ed
Critical thinking skills should be placed at the center of general education programs, Louis E. Newman writes.