Filter & Sort
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.
Opinion
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.
It’s Time to Abolish the SAT
It’s time to stop pushing for test-optional admissions policies, writes Christopher Rim. Instead, we should abandon the test and the College Board should eliminate it.
Becoming Clickbait for Speaking Out
Phoebe Cohen describes being targeted for voicing her views about the Dorian S. Abbot controversy.
Who Comes After Dorian Abbot?
If the standards the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used in his case are applied broadly, it could have unfortunate repercussions for many other academics, argues Alex Small.
Far and Away
During the pandemic, people should stop asking international students “when will you go back home?” writes Gloria Paidamoyo Chikaonda.
Opinion
From Crisis Comes Opportunity
Higher education’s response to the pandemic has spurred four long-lasting positive changes on community college and other campuses, writes Michael A. Baston.
It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes
As remote testing becomes pervasive, colleges should ask some fundamental and wide-ranging questions, Jeremy Epstein and Christopher Kang write.