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Inside the Blunders That Plunged the College Admission Season Into Disarray
The Education Department was supposed to make applying for federal financial aid easier. Instead, it got...
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Opinion | The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
A highly politicized Supreme Court makes it far more difficult to teach students about the fundamentals...
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Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
The rise of A.I. will make soft skills even more important.
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‘It Is Suffocating’: A Top Liberal University Is Under Attack in India
A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on...
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Opinion | The Backpack You Need Isn’t for Carrying Books
Study Spanish in Bolivia. Or teach English in South Korea. Or volunteer in Nepal.
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There’s Always Been Trouble in ‘The Groves of Academe’
How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education.
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Opinion | How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society
Consuming culture gives us the emotional knowledge that can make us better people.
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Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities
In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.”
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Opinion | Critics of D.E.I. Forget That It Works
As the will to engage in D.E.I. programs is waning, it can be tempting to make...
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Opinion | When States Try to Take Away Americans’ Freedom of Thought
Government moves to limit what people can say are an escalation after years of policing speech...
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After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays With a Key Theme: Race
The Supreme Court’s ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So...
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Indiana University Cancels Major Exhibition of Palestinian Artist
Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza...