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Career Exploration in College
Essays on how colleges can do more to help undergraduates explore careers while ensuring that their educations are relevant to the job market.
When Polling Fails, Read a Book
Transformative texts offer us a way to confront the mystery of the human condition and, in our current context, what we don’t understand about American politics, writes Tamara Mann Tweel.
If We Don’t Push for a More Diverse Faculty Now, Then When?
Too often, diversity initiatives are the first to fall when times are tight, but we must stop making that mistake and use this moment for lasting change, writes Ansley Abraham.
Why Johnny Can't Learn Remotely
High schools are not doing a great job with online education, and we shouldn't be surprised, writes Patrick O'Connor.
A Surprising Fruit of Our Pandemic Fall Semester
Counterintuitively to some people, the post-COVID campus will have a renewed, more dynamic sense of place, not a diminished one, writes Laurie L. Patton.
The Boomer Cult of Self-Realization Is Killing College
Colleges have in recent decades placed student discovery ahead of pathways and outcomes. Today’s students need a more practical approach, Ryan Craig argues.
Why Coaching for Social Justice Matters
Athletics can be a productive environment to engage white students, coaches and others in ways that help them become more aware of privilege and institutional racism, writes Joshua Meyer.
The Importance of Inequality Studies
Students, professors and administrators need a deeper understanding of how human disparities have developed, why they persist and how they evolve over time, write William A. Darity Jr., Malachi Hacohen and Adam Hollowell.