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Alissa Quart's Bootstrapped book cover.
Opinion

Rejecting the ‘Bootstrapped’ Academic Career

Alissa Quart’s new book and higher ed work.

Opinion

Human Resources’ Code Words for Employee Departures

The phrases used in announcements about employee departures often seem vague and oh so cagey. What do they actually mean?

Opinion

The End of an Era

What the falling American Jewish birth rate means for higher education.

A black and white portrait of Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell, an older white man.
Opinion

The Launch of the Long Game

To understand today’s conservative attacks on higher ed, look to the ambitious pro-corporate agenda laid out in the 1971 Powell memo, Linda Stamato writes.

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Opinion

How to Optimize Your Career Preparation 

Tithi Basu Mallik and Kay Kimball Gruder each share their favorite pieces of guidance—their best recommendations for strategic actions you can take—in five key areas.

Opinion

A Public College Is Not the DMV

Florida, Ohio and the need for academic autonomy.

Opinion

An Absurd Record

A high school student thinks he broke the record for being admitted to colleges. He and his school should ask whether it was worth it.

A viewer sits in front of an artistic work from Bayeté Ross Smith's "Our Kind of People" series, showing people in their own clothes on a white background.
Opinion

What Goes Up When Art Comes Down?

An artist residency program can offer a model for colleges with bare walls and empty pedestals following the removal of divisive art, Michael Patullo writes.