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When Commitments to Free Speech and Against Antisemitism Collide

We need to be asking different questions as conflicts around antisemitism and free speech continue to arise on college campuses, Jeffrey Herbst writes.

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Managing the Demand Cliff

The other enrollment cliff is something that higher ed leaders can actually do something about, write Rebecca Mathews, Bijan Warner and Peter Stokes.

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Plain Language Is Key to DEI in Academe

Academics have an opportunity to make more accessible linguistic choices, Shawna Shapiro and Laura Aull write.

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Replacing Our Failed System for Financing Higher Ed

Here’s what a more equitable college financing system could look like, Phillip Levine writes.

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Opinion

Tomorrow’s Health-Care Workers and Leaders Need Interprofessional Education

When health-care education programs train students to be good collaborators, the entire health-care system improves—and can be greater than the sum of its parts, writes physical therapy professor Norman Belleza.

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Opinion

When Trust Fails

Trust between boards and campus communities is badly frayed and presidents are caught in the middle, Shelly Weiss Storbeck writes.

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Opinion

A Call for Cognitive Kindness

Drawing lessons from cognitive psychology, we must transform our courses and university structures to be more kind to students’ minds, Karen Yu writes.

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Oh, Vandy

Vanderbilt’s criticism of the U.S. News ranking methodology is tone-deaf at best, Jim Jump writes.