Views

Claiming that academics are failing to engage with the general public is intellectual laziness at best and anti-intellectual posturing at worst, argues Adam Kotsko.

In a letter to trustees, Rachel Toor explains why a university should take its students out of harm’s way.

University crackdowns on speech hurt everyone, writes Christopher Newfield, and renew a false, decades-old depiction of campuses as overrun by censorious radicals.

It protects scientists and advances the discovery of promising treatments that can improve the lives of both people and animals, writes Mar Sanchez.

Policies that punish student protesters reinforce institutionalized white supremacy, argues Charles H. F. Davis III.

Colleges shouldn’t deem certain speech to be off-limits, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.

Jim Jump considers the situations where a college counselor’s interests may not entirely overlap with those of students.