Wick Sloane’s annual survey shows that 36 highly selective colleges are enrolling 722 former military service members this fall. That’s more than last year, but still an embarrassment, he argues. More...
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When Do You Feel Smart?
What would it look like, Christopher S. Travers asks, if we celebrated the effort, growth and resiliency of black men just as much as we did their GPAs. More...
Rethinking Educational Access
Higher education can no longer focus only on young people and preparation for life, writes Arthur Levine. We need to expand our vision to include reskilling and upskilling Americans across their whole lifespan. More...
Big-Name Problems for Academe
Billie Wright Dziech examines whether academe, as well as the film industry, will finally decide to deal decisively with the challenges of sexual harassment. More...
Solving the Work Force’s Skills Gap
It requires offering a broad-based education in which digital skills are developed throughout the entire curriculum and a wide array of co-curricular experiences, write Kimberly Cassidy and Gina Siesing. More...
Veterans at Selective Colleges, 2017
A ’60s Radical Reflects
Activists from my cohort will soon mark 50th anniversaries of events that shook the world in 1968. We will recall, retell, reinterpret, revalue, reflect upon and draw lessons from those famous events, as well as from less famous ones that nonetheless changed alignments and life scripts. More...
Halting the Tragedies of Fraternity Hazing
Nick Altwies questions why, from the death of Scott Krueger to that of Timothy Piazza, we haven’t seemed to learn anything in the past 20 years. More...
Sex and the International Student
Students coming from outside the country have distinct needs that campus programs designed for their domestic peers don’t typically address, write Sharla Reid and Jill Dunlap. More...
Hitting the Accelerator
Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species. More...
Everyone Should Care About Graduate Student Tuition Waivers
Exempting tuition waivers from taxation is not only fair, but it is also a continuing commitment to the economic and societal benefits of accessible higher education, argues Mary GraceB. Hébert. More...
