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The Liberal Arts’ Role in Mental Health
Discouraging students from studying fields they’re drawn to isn’t helping their mental health, Rosario Ceballo writes.
‘One Planet, Many Worlds’
Scott McLemee reviews Dipesh Chakrabarty’s One Planet, Many Worlds.
Preparing for Weather Disasters
Matthea Marquart, Katherine Segal and Kelly Smith highlight questions faculty and administrators should consider to protect students and classes in extreme situations.
From the Ivies to UC, Campus Speech Should Be Free
Colleges are hypocritical in their handling of offensive speech, but the answer isn’t to expand the range of punishable utterances, Alex Small writes.
Scholar Activism Doesn't Require Taking Sides
Scholars should be scholarly and professors professorially, despite differences in our points of view.
The Pros and Cons of Long-Serving Leaders
Beyond the positive impact they can have on institutions, they must also guard against less considered challenges that come with decades of service, writes Erin Hennessy.