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The Right to Hear Controversial Ideas

An essential task of the university is to provide a space where diverse points of view can be debated, argue five Distinguished Professors at the City University of New York, who support Linda Sarsour's right to deliver next week's commencement address.

Pence and Protest at Notre Dame

Dozens walk out on his commencement speech. Vice president attacks “noxious wave” he sees in higher education.

‘Hypatia’ Disavows the ‘Hypatia’ Disavowal

Journal’s board offers its support for editor’s decision to publish article comparing transracial and transgender identities.

The Financier and the Professor

Leonard Cassuto writes of the person with whom he shared his high school, college and graduate school years -- and how the story of the divergent paths they later took continues to vex him.
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Setting Aside Bureaucratic Requirements

W. Russell Neuman explores the impact of undergraduate foreign language requirements and finds that they seem to have little to no meaningful effect on students’ proficiency.

‘What Are the Arts and Sciences?’

A professor discusses how he turned to his colleagues for help answering the question -- and turned the results into a book.

Who Wants a Neurotic Professor?

Study examines traits British students like -- and don’t like -- in instructors.

‘Glacial Progress’ on Digital Accessibility

Data from 700,000 classes show digital course materials have gotten only slightly more accessible to students with disabilities over the last five years.