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How Can Online College Be Both ‘Promising’ and ‘Predatory’?

As with health news about chocolate or wine, higher ed news about online college can seem contradictory. Some researchers say it’s time to retire one-word descriptors.

Students gather to protest anti-trans speaker Ian Haworth in the University of Albany's Campus Center; one holds a sign reading "transphobes, 0, trans people, 1."

Shouting Down Speakers Who Offend

Over the course of a month, students on several college campuses shut down speakers they disagreed with. Why is it so hard to forge a consensus on what protecting free speech really means?

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How Students Feel About Grading

Student Voice survey data reveal five key differences in the ways students think about grades—as well as room for improvement in how professors assign grades and even design courses.

Report: U of Minn. Committed Genocide Against Indigenous People

A new report accuses past leaders of the University of Minnesota of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people...

Harvard Receives $300 Million Gift

Harvard University announced a $300 million gift on Tuesday. The funds, from business leader and philanthropist Kenneth C. Griffin, will...
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Opinion

5 Lessons Learned From Diverse Student Panels

We held panels with students who hold marginalized identities to ask how faculty and administrators can better support them, Matthew R. Johnson, Jennifer Evanuik and Xantha Karp write.

First-year students at Washington University participate in orientation.

Program Launch: Success Center for First-Gen, Limited-Income Students

At Washington University in St. Louis, the Taylor Family Center for Student Success will unite formerly separate resource programs and provide students with peer mentors, financial support and education, and other guidance.

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Cardinal Stritch to Close

The small Franciscan college has experienced an enrollment collapse over the past decade. Now Cardinal Stritch plans to close in late May, following commencement.