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A Pyrrhic Victory?

A Yale University student voices her concerns about reopening campuses in the fall.

Online Learning Is Not the Future

Technology advocates may see online teaching as the best path forward, but one important audience vociferously disagrees: students, Peter C. Herman writes.

The Case for Cohorts

Higher education already has a proven educational approach we need to consider to help colleges reopen more safely in the fall, writes Peter Plavchan.

Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism

Instead of offering yet another special-focus course, institutions must fully integrate truly diverse and inclusive subject matter into survey and required courses, argues Christiane Warren.

The MCAT Should Be Optional

This year, there is no reason to require the test, writes Lala Tanmoy Das.

Do You Know What It’s Like?

David Harris gives his perspective as a college president and a black man on the events of recent weeks in Minnesota, Central Park and elsewhere.

How to Reopen: Let Students and Faculty Choose

The key is to move to a three-semester academic year, spread out over 52 weeks, with people choosing which two semesters work best for them, Benjamin Reiss writes.

Changed, Changed Utterly

Christopher Cox predicts the significant ways academic libraries will shift in terms of collections, services, spaces and operations as a result of the pandemic.