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As the recent Senate confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrated, yearbooks are documents that can go beyond casual nostalgia, writes John R. Thelin.

The ways that many board committees and task forces operate today no longer make sense, warn Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower.

For many students, experiences as members of a particular racial or ethnic group are central to their identities, and those identities should not vanish in the name of colorblind admissions, writes Nicholas Soodik.

They prepare students for the challenges they will confront in their professional, political, social and cultural lives, argues Elizabeth H. Bradley.

Assertions about the value of the humanities should not be predominantly defensive responses to those who mistakenly deride the economic outcomes of such an education, warns Robert Newman.

A new report points to the need to challenge the cult of rankings, writes Jim Jump.

Many community colleges rely too much on associate degrees that have little labor market value and too rarely lead to a four-year credential, Ryan Craig argues.