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Suicide Prevention Shouldn’t Be Optional

Failing to mandate suicide prevention training at colleges and universities isn’t just misguided or negligent, argues Melody Moezzi. It’s ignorant and reckless.

Should We Ban College Admission Tests?

Doing so would actually hurt minority and low-income students, write Daniel H. Robinson, Robert A. Bligh and Howard Wainer.

The Questions We Can’t Afford to Ignore

The pandemic has thrust a far deeper and existential set of them upon us that we in higher education must confront more directly, writes John C. Cavanaugh.

Enhancing the Student Experience Requires Coordination

As more institutions select cloud-based systems to better serve their students, they must trust their IT leaders as strategic partners and work across administrative silos, writes Vicki Tambellini.

An Extraordinary Firing

If universities can sack tenured faculty without due process, it will set a dangerous precedent -- one that could ultimately be a death sentence for the profession, argues Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.
Opinion

Conspiracies in the Classroom

The fight against conspiratorial thinking among students can’t be won with some required courses and simply reaffirming that anti-Semitism is wrong and Elvis is dead, writes Elizabeth Stice.

Is Academic Freedom a Casualty of the Gaza War?

The national effort to organize an entire academic discipline around anti-Zionism represents a new and dangerous phase in the politicization of academe, argues Cary Nelson.

Reimagining Higher Education for the Age of Flexible Work

Colleges simply can’t go back to the way things used to be, argue Sally Amoruso and Brian Elliott, as faculty and staff are demanding flexibility with when and where they work.