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Teaching the Good Life

“Good life” courses can help prepare students to live more purposeful, meaningful lives, write Kristina Callina, Alicia Lynch and Michael Murray.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘On Bullshit’ and AI

The rise of generative AI heralds the dawn of a golden age for bullshit in education, A. G. Elrod writes.

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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.

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Opinion

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.

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What Algorithms Say About Affirmative Action

Race-blind approaches risk obscuring important information, Rachel Hong writes.