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No more CV skimming: faculty search committees should consider an initial anonymized review of candidates’ research proposals, John M. Herbert writes.

It’s time to stop charging interest on federal student loans, U.S. Representative Joe Courtney writes.

While test-optional policies are already the norm, the University of California’s experience points toward test-free admissions as the next best step, Julie J. Park and OiYan Poon write.

Scott McLemee reviews Gregg Barak’s Criminology on Trump.

Higher ed has a student housing crisis, Ryan Craig writes.

In cutting foreign language programs, West Virginia closes doors for its students and undermines the purpose of the university, Neil B. Weissman writes.

It’s time we start grappling with left-wing bias on campus and the problems that’s created for higher education, Billie Wright Dziech writes.

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