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Many Liberal Arts Students Need a Lesson in Free Speech
They are both more accepting of attempts to silence speech and overwhelmingly more liberal than their public and private university counterparts, argues Samuel J. Abrams.
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As Students Lead, Will Harvard Follow?
The university’s divestment is powerful, but it must do more to model climate leadership, write Ilana Cohen and Tim Wirth.
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Rethinking Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education
Colleges can’t view it as the end goal to responding effectively to the climate crisis, argue Alex Barron, Aaron Strong and Lucy Metz, who offer five other recommendations for action.
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Black Panther Party: A Textbook Case of Biased History
Today’s students must understand the legacy of older generations of Black movement leaders, writes Fredrika Newton, a former member of the party and the wife of its co-founder.
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Making Recommendation Letters Even More Meaningless
Rebecca Vidra knew recommendation letters as a recipient of them, but not as the mother of an applicant.
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Beyond Gatekeepers
Especially if trained to do so, we faculty members should shift our mind-sets and become much more a part of students’ network of mental health care, writes Krista Speicher Sarraf.
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Shared Governance Within the Autocratic Academy
Has the pandemic shown us how and why shared governance is fatally flawed? Timothy Kaufman-Osborn explores the answer to that question.
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Testing Can Save Democracy
We should require that people take a basic civics test -- along the lines of a citizenship exam -- as a prerequisite for holding public office, argues Harvey J. Graff.
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