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Do Colleges Need a Chief Diversity Officer?
When strategically and purposely positioned, funded and supported, such senior administrators can play a vital role in higher education institutions today, writes Eugene T. Parker III.
A Farewell Letter to DEI Work
Such departments, centers and divisions are spaces of impossibility -- they can't do the things they are tasked with, as they are not empowered to hold people accountable, writes Tatiana McInnis.
Cheering on the Batman Effect
If that's what it takes to generate self-awareness, so be it.
Academic Planning for a Worst-Case Long-Term COVID-19 Scenario
If a vaccine does not come until 2025.
What Should It Mean to Be Liberally Educated in the 21st Century?
Derek Bok’s prescriptions for reclaiming the value of a liberal education.
"Institutional Awe" Makes for Bad Leadership
When you privilege the institution over the people it's supposed to serve, you get what's happening at schools across the country (like UNC Chapel Hill) right now.
How to Overcome Classroom Zoom Fatigue
Elizabeth Stone shares the strategies she used to transform her recent Zoom class into one of the most gratifying teaching experiences she'd ever had.
It’s Compassion, Not Capitulation, to Ask Less of Students Amid Disruption
As was true last spring, the college learning environment this fall is likely to challenge students. Professors should be flexible and empathetic, William Ellis writes.