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Less selective universities should hire more senior administrators with STEM backgrounds—or risk shortchanging their students in competition for the best jobs, Ryan Craig argues.

Scott McLemee reviews Isaac Butler’s The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.

Accreditation is stepping up its game in an evolving higher education landscape in ways that may surprise you, writes Jamienne Studley.

“Dizzyingly long lists” of courses meeting gen ed requirements put unhealthy pressure on students and inhibit community colleges from living up to their ideals, Terry O’Banion and Cindy L. Miles write.

In fumbling the renaming of a building that honored a Ku Klux Klan leader, the University of Alabama avoids real racial redress, Antar A. Tichavakunda writes.

The University of California Board of Regents shouldn’t have abolished the SAT and ACT in admissions decisions, Donald Wittman argues.

The underrepresentation of Black head coaches in college sports is unacceptable, Shaun R. Harper writes.

One group of billionaires seems to fly under the radar of policy planning and populist scrutiny—probably because they’ve been able to convince us of two questionable things, argues Laurie Essig.