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We should better inform students about the placement exam and allow them to retest after they've received more instruction, write W. Theory Thompson and Danae McLeod.

Joanne Berger-Sweeney cites the lessons learned from a controversy at her institution involving race, politics, campus safety and competing claims of ownership over who has the right to speak and what they can and cannot say.

Jim Jump considers what applicants gain -- and what they don't.

Richard M. Freeland suggests three ways higher education leaders can respond to declining public support and confidence.

Scott McLemee explores Michael S. A. Graziano’s The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution and Human Nature, which describes how we are each surrounded by a kind of invisible bubble possessing remarkable qualities.

Susan Henking shares some of the fundamental lessons she learned in merging the college she led with another.

Faculty members and designers need clear roles, but ones that emphasize the deeply shared nature of their work, writes Tim Milosch.

Rather than investing in expensive building projects that can create financial and public-relations risks, writes Loren Rullman, institutions should focus on the educational case for facility development.