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Opinion

The Attempt to Destroy Columbia

The Trump administration has the symbolic fight it wants, Brian Rosenberg writes.

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Opinion

A Valentine’s Day Card Without the Love

The Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter features some questionable assumptions and false equivalences, Jim Jump writes.

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Opinion

Anti-DEI Rhetoric Does Not Equal Legal Reality

The anti-DEI movement sounds like a row of cannons, but its legal attack is a rifle shot based on one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dan Currell writes.

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Opinion

What If 2% of a Harvard Gift Went to an HBCU?

With higher ed facing a hostile political climate, rich colleges should share their wealth with needier institutions, Eric Weinberger writes.

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Opinion

Ed Data Goes Dark: Why It Matters

Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences are part of an authoritarian playbook, Robert Ubell writes.

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Opinion

Free Speech Matters. So Does DEI.

Students can’t speak and debate freely without inclusion and belonging, Michael S. Roth writes.

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Opinion

Lessons Learned From a College Closure

In part three of a three-part series, former senior leaders at Cabrini University offer advice for navigating a closure, including ideas for how neighboring institutions can help—and not hurt.

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Opinion

The Deadline That Wasn’t

Higher ed botched its response to the anti-DEI Dear Colleague letter, Steve Robinson writes.