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What We Talk About When We Talk About Free Tuition
New Mexico’s free tuition law should stimulate a national conversation about why other states should pursue tuition-free higher education, Megan Bogia and Winston C. Thompson write.
Room for Improvement
Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.
Targeted Loan Relief Doesn’t Work
The history of a student loan discharge program for people with disabilities clearly shows the need for automatic—as opposed to targeted—debt relief, Bethany Lilly and Persis Yu write.
Who Cares About Character?
Character judgments of our public intellectuals matter, Nadya Williams writes in the aftermath of Joshua Katz’s dismissal from Princeton.
The Forgotten Predominantly Black Institutions of Higher Ed
Predominantly Black institutions need more attention and funding, Kurt L. Schmoke and Zaldwaynaka Scott write.
Taking on ‘U.S. News’?
Catharine Hill thinks the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education just might be—and that’s a good thing.
From COVID Czar to Strategy Czar
College leaders can take the same approach they used for managing COVID on campus and apply it to implementing overall institutional strategy, Kent Barnds writes.
‘Bright Ages’ So White
A killed book review and resulting racist backlash reveal the extent of white gatekeeping, ally performativity and outright racism in academe, Ambereen Dadabhoy and Erik Wade write.