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COVID or Not, Why They Come (and How It’s Going)
A look at how the pandemic impacted—or didn’t—students’ admissions and college choice process and experiences.
Reversing Course on Mask Mandates
Colleges across the U.S. are changing policies on mask mandates, reinstituting such requirements amid increasing coronavirus cases. Some see a direct link to spring break travel.
Free Speech for Me, and Thee?
Princeton says it won’t remove a reference to a professor’s controversial comment about a Black student group from a university-sponsored webpage. Some say this is retaliation, but others say the pro–free speech professor is now advocating censorship.
How I Came to Love CRT Bans
Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.
Massachusetts College Access Hampered by State Disinvestment
State funding for public higher education in Massachusetts fell steeply over the course of two decades, limiting college access for...
Kenyon College Residential Advisers Go On Indefinite Strike
A majority of Kenyon College community advisers, also known as residential advisers, have launched an indefinite strike over unfair labor...
Ending Unpaid Internships
Colleges are creating new funds and programs to pay students for work when employers won’t. It’s one way to equalize internship opportunities, which have historically excluded low-income students.
President Departs After Faculty Objects to His Pay Raise
President Scott Gordon and Stephen F. Austin State University have “mutually agreed” to part ways, according to a tweet the...