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Early FAFSA: Fast, but Will it Go Far?
Kent Barnds takes stock of the impact of a major change in the financial aid and student recruitment timetable.
The Makings of a President?
Scott McLemee reviews Robert E. Denton Jr.’s scholarship on the American presidency, which highlights how immediately coping with the lack of any guidebook is one of the most urgent demands of the office.
Three Questions for Higher Education
We need to engage in a serious dialogue about our role in exacerbating the opportunity gap and our obligation to close it, argues Dan Greenstein.
Lessons From the Tragedy of the Commons
We in higher education must act on our collective responsibility to support America's public universities, writes Harold M. Hastings.
Coming in 2017
Colleges and universities should prepare for seven key trends in the new year, Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson advise.
Colleges Should Abandon Early Admissions
The disadvantage they confer on low-income students is a fatal flaw, argues Harold O. Levy.
‘Suspicious Minds’
Rob Brotherton’s Suspicious Minds illuminates how Trump’s affinity for the conspiratorial mind-set forms the bedrock of his very existence as a political figure, writes Scott McLemee.
Compassion Is No Substitute for Competence
Higher education institutions are woefully unprepared to handle the complexity of rape cases, argues Ted Gup.