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Deprogramming College

“Programmed” thinking—the tendency to try to solve educational problems with required courses and curricula—has outlived its usefulness, Chris W. Gallagher writes.

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Education as Privilege Laundering

The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into “merit,” Musa al-Gharbi writes.

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Confronting Racism After Affirmative Action

What faculty can and should do to help all of their future students.

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Building the AI Talent Pipeline

Industry partnerships, stackable credentials, two new centers, AI across the curriculum: Madeline Pumariega writes how one college is responding to the need for an AI-trained workforce.

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A New Era of Prison Education

With Pell Grants newly available to more incarcerated individuals, colleges should expand access to higher ed in the nation’s prisons, Judy Olian writes.

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Affirmative Action and the Myth of Merit

A more inclusive definition of merit provides an opportunity for higher ed to reinvent itself after the Supreme Court’s damaging decision, Demetria D. Frank, Darrell D. Jackson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones write.

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Not a Win for Asian American Applicants

The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action won’t change deeper reasons Asian Americans are disadvantaged in elite college admissions, Leelila Strogov writes.