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Scott McLemee reviews Peter Burke’s Ignorance: A Global History.

With their challenges well aligned, higher ed and the military should work together to reduce the opportunity costs of volunteering for military service, Mike Haynie writes.

Colleges have a role in cultivating hopefulness in a generation of young people suffering the mental health effects of the pandemic and political conflict, Sian Beilock writes.

We teach students the rules for applying to grad school—but what if we committed, equally, to rewriting the rules that have historically excluded many students, Michael A. Hunt asks.

Extreme care must be taken to ensure the smaller college’s mission is preserved, Jim Murphy writes.

Carol Quillen considers questions and challenges brought to the fore by the controversy over images of the Prophet Muhammad shown in an art class.

Colleges must take a more proactive role in helping students avoid indoctrination into white nationalism, Karen Gaffney writes.