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Advice for Presidents From the Ghost of Diana Vreeland
What the former Vogue editor might have told today’s campus leaders about how to dress (and very much how not to).
Teach Your Students to Be Builders, Not Critics
Eboo Patel calls on college educators to teach students how to build a better social order, not merely criticize the existing one.
Would Free College Boost Humanities Majors?
I asked, and 266 people to answered that question.
Uncloaking the Hidden Force of Whiteness
Our antiracism work on campuses often fails to examine how such pervasive, systemic whiteness protects itself, writes Michael H. Gavin.
Espionage! (Not)
Scott McLemee reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.
Friday Fragments
An unusual September, a survey crashes and burns, the “community college wage penalty” is discredited, and the uses of “notwithstanding.”
Yale in Houston
Houston represents America’s future, and higher ed is not stepping up to meet it, Ryan Craig writes.
5 Reasons That Slack Is Sort of Growing on Me
Can’t believe I’m saying this.