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Veterans Day, November 2021

Wick Sloane’s annual survey of highly selective colleges reveals they enroll few undergraduate veterans (if they take the time to reply at all).

Black and Brown Students Want Black and Brown Mentors. What’s a Primarily White Institution to Do?

S. Brooke Vick from Muhlenberg College shares three ways mentoring efforts can support students of color.

How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’

Constraints on discussions of important social issues, however sensitive, subvert the goals of a liberal arts education, write David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler.
Opinion

It’s Time to Abolish the SAT

It’s time to stop pushing for test-optional admissions policies, writes Christopher Rim. Instead, we should abandon the test and the College Board should eliminate it.
Opinion

Becoming Clickbait for Speaking Out

Phoebe Cohen describes being targeted for voicing her views about the Dorian S. Abbot controversy.
Opinion

Who Comes After Dorian Abbot?

If the standards the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used in his case are applied broadly, it could have unfortunate repercussions for many other academics, argues Alex Small.

Far and Away

During the pandemic, people should stop asking international students “when will you go back home?” writes Gloria Paidamoyo Chikaonda.

From Crisis Comes Opportunity

Higher education’s response to the pandemic has spurred four long-lasting positive changes on community college and other campuses, writes Michael A. Baston.