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It's doubtful that sanctuary proposals for immigrant students will provide actual sanctuary or create any genuine change, argues Michael A. Olivas, who calls on campuses to take much more meaningful actions.

The distress that students now feel over the election of Trump runs deeper than fear of what the administration plans to do, argues Mark Bauerlein. It signifies the fall of the diversity-sensitive propriety that has guided much of their lives.

The death of Scott Eric Kaufman -- an American critic and leading first-generation, graduate student blogger -- drives home the sense that this has been an especially cruel year, writes Scott McLemee.

Colleges must put the right diversity practices in place to encourage students to pursue important fields like STEM and the biomedical sciences, write Jennifer C. Danek and Marc Nivet.

Traditional textbooks and teaching resources in these vital fields are simply not as effective as we need them to be, argues Smita Bakshi.

Among other things, assessors routinely ignore standard design principles and practices that are considered essential in most valid research.

Controversial decisions, late-night travel, explicit threats -- the president may have brushed them off, but as a governing board, we chose to look at them from a different perspective, writes Marsha Suggs Smith.