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Democratizing Data With an Equity Lens

By sharing the right data, higher ed leaders can use the collective expertise on their campus to identify and dislodge barriers to student success and advance equitable outcomes, writes Jeff Gold.

Ethical College Admissions: Would Lottery Admissions Work?

Jim Jump examines a recent study and the issues it raises.

When Will the Library Be Open?

David Banush explores how, with climate change and operational disruptions, answering that question going forward will require embracing an even more diffuse definition of the research library.

Spring Forward

Scott McLemee offers a preview of next spring’s university press offerings.

Resisting the Panopticon

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.
Opinion

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.