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‘Ground Control to Major Tom…’

William Kuskin discusses the early results from his institution's effort to pilot an at-scale affordable degree.

Curing Programmitis to Create Diverse Student Success

Transformational change -- a total restructuring -- is needed to disrupt embedded patterns and reorient campuses for a new student body, argues Adrianna Kezar.

The Limitations of Need-Blind Admissions

As much as finances should not matter in making an admissions decision, they should matter when we work to create an equitable and accessible educational experience, Lara Tiedens argues.

Ethical College Admissions: Harvard's Preferences

Jim Jump reviews a paper on how the university treats athletes, legacies and others.

Improved Grading Makes Classrooms More Equitable

While faculty members believe that their practices are fair and objective, a closer look reveals that they are anything but, argues Joe Feldman.

Censorship Through Noise

Peter Pomerantsev's This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality demonstrates that one variety of globalization is compatible with economic protectionism, cultural isolationism and an obsession with national sovereignty, Scott McLemee writes.

Improving Graduation Rates by Nudging Faculty, Not Students

Jeff Gold, Roy Stripling and Michal Kurlaender describe a program that encourages professors to use tools offering specifics about the academic trajectories of their students to help facilitate those students' paths to a college degree.

Fixes for Short-Term Pell

Opening up Pell Grants to short-term training is a promising idea, but changes are needed to prevent unintended consequences for equity, writes Jim Jacobs.