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Information on progress toward graduation, improved tools for communicating with professors and staff, and data privacy protections would help students to make informed decisions and succeed, writes Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger.

Charging history or English majors lower tuition in line with lower labor costs could attract back students who have been abandoning the humanities, Fidel J. Tavárez writes.

It should—and it already is—but the fact that few people understand how honors programs are changing is the problem, write Richard Badenhausen and James Buss.

Rather than turn to third-party providers, colleges should invest in counselors with a stake in the well-being of the campus community, Philip J. Rosenbaum and Richard E. Webb write.

Marcus Hotaling writes that he is cautiously optimistic—emphasis on ”cautiously”—about the growing trend of campus counseling centers partnering with teletherapy companies.

We must reconsider optional attendance policies not least for the sake of students’ physical and mental health, Eric Skipper writes.

Wick Sloane’s annual survey of how many student veterans are enrolled at highly selective colleges finds some meaningful progress, yet many institutions still not paying attention to the issue.