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The Growing Public Disgust With the Ethos of Elite Private Universities
The causes and consequences of mounting public distrust of elite higher education.
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Welcome to the Admissions ‘Luckocracy’
The degree to which the college admission process is a meritocracy may be in question—but it’s most certainly a luckocracy, Jim Jump writes.
![From left to right, Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, Elizabeth Magill, now former president of University of Pennsylvania, Pamela Nadell, professor of history and Jewish studies at American University, and Sally Kornbluth, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee last week on the issue of antisemitism on campuses. In the photo of the hearing, Gay, in the foreground, is speaking.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-12/GettyImages-1833206910.jpg?itok=244povFC)
Lessons on Moral Clarity From the Antisemitism Hearing
The presidents’ answers were not so much wrong as they were deaf to the moral imperatives of the moment, Karl Schonberg writes.
3 Questions for Columbia Teachers College on a Noodle Consulting Collaboration
A conversation with Katie Embree.
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McCarthyism and Moral Panic
Policing of language among those who should uphold the university as a vital democratic space for debate has led to paranoia and anxious conditions, writes Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.
Why the House Targeted Those 3 Presidents
The presidents of MIT, Harvard and Penn called on the carpet about antisemitism are all women and all relatively new. Coincidence? Hardly. They were marked.
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