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Let’s Talk About Hard Power: America’s Universities Are National Security Assets
We undermine them at our peril.
Friday Fragments
The rise of the campus right, hiring late-career professionals as adjuncts and family bonding over a literary feud.
The Higher Education Act Turns 60—and Congress Has Left It to Collect Dust
We need a comprehensive reauthorization, not policy by patchwork.
Agentic AI Invading the LMS and Other Things We Should Know
A Q&A with Marc Watkins, director of the AI Institute for Teachers.
A Way to Save the Essay
We can encourage slow thinking by reimagining the essay as a scaffolded, in-class—and AI-free—assignment, Lily Abadal writes.
Confessions of a Former Gatekeeper
Looking back on a couple of careers of mostly saying “No.”
Colleges Are Running Out of Time on Digital Accessibility
New federal rules require all college web content to be accessible by spring 2026. Most institutions are far from ready.
The Transfer Student Conversation
Four questions that drive institutional change.