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Humane Assessment Shouldn’t Happen Only During a Pandemic

A standards-based approach to grading that incorporates goal-setting and self-reflection can help promote students' progress in times of crisis as well as normalcy, advises Rosalie Metro.

Pulling Rank

Want to address systemic racism at business schools? Let’s start with M.B.A. program rankings, write seven business school scholars.

Fostering a Sense of Belonging in STEM

The myth that underrepresented students leave science because they can't keep up reflects an unwillingness to deal with the truth that it's we who must change, writes Kerstin M. Perez.
Opinion

Colleges Should Go Back to School on Remote Learning

Too few seized this fall’s unique opportunity to truly reimagine how they offer virtual education, and student dissatisfaction -- and ultimately budget pain -- are likely to follow, Ryan Craig writes.

Believing in Our Students

Much more is happening on campuses than people chafing under COVID-inspired restrictions, writes Austin Sarat.

Is Lecturing Racist?

For colleges to achieve antiracism, equity and inclusion, one of the most effective actions will be for professors to stop talking so much in their classrooms, argue Scott Freeman and Elli Theobald.

We Must Change How We Fund Graduate School

Channeling more funding directly to grad students would diversify academe and enhance the scientific enterprise, argue Kafui Dzirasa, Christopher D. Lynn, Jin Kim Montclare, Leia Stirling and Bill Wuest.

Colleges Shouldn't Overfocus on Technical Skills

Doing so expands access and opportunity in the short term but creates a two-tiered society that reinforces equity gaps over the long haul, writes Melanie Ho.