In the wake of the most recent effort to undermine transgender people and their rights, Scott McLemee reviews this year's books on themRecent incidents threaten international student exchange and the ability of students to engage with others about the complexities of the Middle East, write Ken Waltzer and Mark G. Yudof.
It has been a rough few weeks for American students who wish to study in Israel. An opponent of the Israeli state refused to write a recommendation for a University of Michigan student who sought to study abroad in Israel, while a state agency of Israel, the Shin Bet, acting for Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, barred another American student from entering Israel to begin graduate study at Hebrew University. Now a graduate instructor at the University of Michigan has compounded the problem, similarly refusing to write for a student. More...

In the wake of the most recent effort to undermine transgender people and their rights, Scott McLemee reviews this year's books on them. More...

The Harvard admissions case raises doubts -- well beyond the discrimination claims -- about the way elite colleges admit students, writes Edward Tenner. More...

Few people seemed to have noticed that it was a put-down of academics concerned with racial issues, write Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears. More...

As the recent Senate confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrated, yearbooks are documents that can go beyond casual nostalgia, writes John R. Thelin. More...

They prepare students for the challenges they will confront in their professional, political, social and cultural lives, argues Elizabeth H. Bradley. More...

Our democracy was founded on an expectation that its citizens have a moral and historical obligation to be discerning, neither ciphers receptive to any pronouncement nor cynics receptive to none. That’s why I find a fable that Benjamin Franklin tells in his “Apology to Printers” to be particularly relevant to the state of the humanities today. More...

A new report points to the need to challenge the cult of rankings, writes Jim Jump. More...

The ways that many board committees and task forces operate today no longer make sense, warn Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. More...

Educational technology companies have some trust issues and should be required to prove that they're pursuing more than their own financial bottom line, John Katzman and Stephen Bailey arguel. More...