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Rethinking how we assess, test and grade our students gives not only them but also instructors needed flexibility during an impossible time, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis write.

The Education Department should allow emergency approvals for online degree programs so American institutions can educate international and other students place bound by COVID-19, Michael B. Horn and Paul Freedman argue.

Scott McLemee reviews Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America, by Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day and Ann Gordon.

Institutions are quickly reacting to how the outbreak might impact domestic students studying abroad, but they've not focused enough attention on international students on their campuses, argues Ruby Cheng.

Congress and the Trump administration should act now to save higher education amid the pandemic and recession, writes Nate Johnson.

In response to a recent article about professors' responsibility to help prepare their students for careers, Rob Fried says students -- not instructors -- primarily own that responsibility. But the college has a role to play.

A new study illuminates the many barriers that people in prison confront in continuing their education -- barriers that should be removed, argue Megan Quattlebaum and Haley Glover.

Higher education is a basic human need. The opportunity should be available to anyone who pursues it, writes prison inmate Lyle C. May.