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Given their responsibility for scholarly activities, it’s natural for some faculty to try to develop their own safety measures for classes and labs, but they should fight that impulse, writes Mike Poterala.

Phillip B. Levine writes that such a change would directly benefit low-income students.

We see disparate student success rates year in and year out, yet we don't know how to change that, as most of us weren't taught better ways to teach, argue Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley.

Scott McLemee surveys a roundup of books for fall that are pertinent to the COVID pandemic.

The funding model of higher education -- not test scores -- is the greatest barrier to college access, writes Joe Bagnoli.

They've become ubiquitous signals of antiracism initiatives, but they are not the path to more just and inclusive universities, argues Jill Stoner.

We need to reflect on how we wield our words as scientists and educators, especially when doing work to make academe and science more diverse, writes Maria Qadri.

Growing efforts to curtail free speech and academic freedom endanger the ability to cultivate the informed citizenry on which our democracy depends, write David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler.