If we teach students to see racism as an idea that's expressed through behaviors, institutions and cultures rather than an immutable character trait, we free them to see things more accurately and with more openness to change, argues Cyndi Kernahan. More...
Think Positive
Scott McLemee reviews Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding by Bobby Duffy. More...
A Question of Character
Robert Massa explains a new attempt to define character in the admissions process. More...
Is It Time to Dezone Knowledge?
To halt the crisis in the humanities, Clifford Siskin and William Warner write, we must rethink our classification system. More...
Mental Health Challenges Require Urgent Response
They are serious and complex problems and should not be the sole purview of our campuses’ counseling centers, write Ted Mitchell and Suzanne Ortega. More...
Ethical College Admissions: Low Point
High Point University illustrates the problems with the Justice Department's approach to antitrust issues in higher education, writes Jim Jump. More...
A Defense of the Classics in College Entrance Exams
About 20 years ago, while in my 20s and experiencing a bit of an existential crisis, I read Plato’s Apology for the first time. Plato’s portrayal of Socrates spoke to me in a way that possibly no other piece of literature ever had. More...
Should Computer Science Be Required?
At far too many institutions today, students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses, writes Robert Sedgewick. More...
Topic: Trending
Scott McLemee reviews Devon Powers's On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future. More...
Higher Education Should Report More Than Its Mortality Rate
Colleges and universities are not asked to report on measures that should be evident long before a student (or institution) faces the worst-case scenario, writes Barbara Damron. More...