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Higher ed institutions must reassure first-generation students that it’s OK not to have all the answers, writes Nick Ladany, a first-gen student who became a university president.

The chief privacy officer role in higher ed should be reimagined to move beyond compliance functions to encompass privacy advocacy, Michael Corn and Joanna Grama write.

Jonathan Zimmerman writes that academic freedom protects Amy Wax’s right to speak her mind—but not her reported discriminatory behavior toward students and colleagues.

Catharine B. Hill writes that the Justice Department is taking the wrong approach in higher education.

Scott McLemee takes a look at forthcoming university press titles.

The math does not add up. DEI faculty hiring initiatives are but cheap talk without corresponding efforts to build the pipeline, Mariappan Jawaharlal writes.

Colleges most in need of a lifeline through a merger or acquisition don’t tend to be attractive to would-be acquirers, Jeremy Greenwald Wolos writes. How can higher ed subvert this paradox?

While campus-level climate surveys are important, a new national survey mandated by Congress could undermine the goal of creating safer campuses, Joseph Storch writes.