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Anti-Semitism After Charlottesville
Matthew J. Mayhew, Benjamin S. Selznick, Kevin Singer and Alyssa N. Rockenbach provide data and advice on improving attitudes toward Jewish students on college campuses.
Scholars or Spies?
Foreign agents are targeting research at American academic institutions, write Representatives Lamar Smith and Clay Higgins, and universities must take steps to guard against theft of sensitive information.
Questions Harvard Needs to Answer
Jun-Han Su and Hao Wu write that the university needs to assure Asian-American applicants that they aren't the subject of bias in the admissions process.
Ethical College Admissions: The Harvard Admissions Case
Jim Jump reviews the latest briefs. He's not convinced of discrimination, but he does have a lot of questions.
The Idea of the University Today
How have institutions like the University of Oxford endured for centuries through so many dramatic changes, asks Reverend John I. Jenkins, and what might their staying power teach us now?
The Hunger Project
Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
Race and Foreign Language
Deborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward.
Textbook Rentals: Symptom, Not Cause
The runaway cost of instructional materials is a worry, but it's not even close to the biggest problem for students, writes Jason Katzman.