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A Campus Is Not the Place for Free Speech

In the wake of President Trump's executive order, David R. Harris explains why he opposes free speech at colleges and universities.

The Admission Cheating Scam: What’s Next?

We should trade outrage and disgust for promise and opportunity, argues Rick Dalton.

Digital Divides

Scott McLemee reviews two books about our networked society that raise rather dystopian concerns.

Breaking Out of the Shadow College

Strengthening connections between credit and noncredit work-force programs at community colleges would be beneficial for students, writes Jim Jacobs.

Creating a Legacy of Fairness in Admissions

Low-income students face many more obstacles to earning a college degree than affluent ones. Preferences for alumni children shouldn’t be among them, argues Peter McPherson.

Remaking Higher Ed From Within

As learners and employers seek education and training that is cheaper, faster and better, forward-looking colleges and universities are embracing new roles as curators, certifiers and integrators, Kathleen deLaski and Rufus Glasper write.
Opinion

What’s Missing in the Admissions Madness Discussion?

Certain ways of framing and covering the scandal are misleading and only reinforce exaggerated or inaccurate views of higher education, argues Margaret Dunning.

Academic BDS and the Calculus of Hypocrisy

The people who support academic boycott, divestment and sanctions are demanding academic freedom for themselves and their fellow boycotters but denying it to their students, argues Tammi Rossman-Benjamin.