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Students have a strong desire for constructive engagement across political divides—but are most afraid of blowback for their views from fellow students, a team of UNC researchers writes.

The agency never should have gone after NACAC, and we are all paying the price because it did, writes Jay Menees.

New Mexico’s free tuition law should stimulate a national conversation about why other states should pursue tuition-free higher education, Megan Bogia and Winston C. Thompson write.

Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.

The history of a student loan discharge program for people with disabilities clearly shows the need for automatic—as opposed to targeted—debt relief, Bethany Lilly and Persis Yu write.

Character judgments of our public intellectuals matter, Nadya Williams writes in the aftermath of Joshua Katz’s dismissal from Princeton.

Predominantly Black institutions need more attention and funding, Kurt L. Schmoke and Zaldwaynaka Scott write.

Catharine Hill thinks the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education just might be—and that’s a good thing.