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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Maryland’s Apprenticeship Advantage: Turning 'Earn While You Learn' Into a Workforce Engine
As employers nationwide grapple with talent shortages and workers seek more affordable, practical pathways into promising careers, Maryland’s approach offers a model for other states.
April 29, 2026
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Want Diversity? Keep Test-Optional, but Improve Guidance
Some elite institutions have backed away from test-optional policies, contending they actually undermine diversity and result in enrolling academically unprepared students.
April 24, 2026
From the Magazine
Leadership Decision-Making and Civic Engagement
Preparing students for civic life is inherent in the mission of community colleges as is the civic role of the institution itself.
April 22, 2026
Students
We Cannot Talk About Student Success While Our Students Are Hungry
Higher education must confront an uncomfortable reality: our systems are not designed for the students we claim to serve.
April 19, 2026
Opinion
A Number Is Not a Promise: What the FY2027 Budget Really Says About Our Commitment to Children with Disabilities
We’ve seen this movie before, and *spoiler alert*: it doesn’t end well for the kids who were already being left behind.
April 15, 2026
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From Programs to Systems: What Retention Rates Reveal About Institutional Design in an HBCU Context
Dr. Frederick L. Hunter, Jr. says
retention is often treated as a student issue, but in reality, it is a function of institutional design and the institution’s ability to execute that design in real time.
April 13, 2026
Opinion
Affordable, But Not Equal: What Tuition Reduction Policies Miss About Institutional Capacity
Branden D. Elmore argues that in some cases, pushes toward institutional affordability can mask deeper inequalities that shape student experience and outcomes.
April 9, 2026
Opinion
The South Is Rewriting History Again — And This Time It’s Happening on My Campus
Black spaces at predominantly white institutions were never created to exclude. They were created because exclusion already existed.
April 8, 2026
Opinion
From Mentee to Mentor: The Access Gap Higher Education Still Refuses to Address
Dr. Jonelle Knox, as assistant provost at New Jersey City University, writes about a quiet crisis of opportunity that persists for the professionals working within the walls of higher education.
April 1, 2026
From the Magazine
Why Unprecedented Investment in HBCUs Is Constitutionally Required
America has become fluent in acknowledgment. We commemorate slavery, teach Jim Crow, and ritualistically invoke the language of civil rights.
March 31, 2026
HBCUs
Disruption or Dispossession: What Kentucky State University Reveals About the Future of HBCUs
A Kentucky State alumnus and former SGA president and student regent argues that SB185 is not simply a policy debate, but a defining moment for the future of HBCUs and for higher education as a whole.
March 30, 2026
Opinion
How Faith and Education Are Joining Forces to Support Students with Disabilities at Alfred Street Baptist Church
The American University School of Education is joining forces to support the children’s inclusion ministry at Alfred Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
March 29, 2026
Leadership & Policy
Leadership Lessons from the Slowest Person on Track at CSUF
Lewis & Clark College President Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan reflects on how a first-gen student-athlete at a "commuter school" became a college president—and the quiet leadership lessons from a Black woman trailblazer that still guide her today.
March 26, 2026
Views
Higher Education Was Built For Moments Like This
Co-authors posit that when state legislatures target higher education, the instinct is to hunker down and stay quiet. But the most effective response may be the opposite, demonstrating the value colleges bring to civic life.
March 25, 2026
From the Magazine
Gomillion v. Lightfoot Reverberates in the Fight for Justice Today
A groundbreaking moment in election jurisprudence on issues of race and gerrymandering, which took place against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South,
Gomillion
offers lessons for today’s academic communities about their capacity to resist authoritarianism and promote democratic rights.
March 23, 2026
African-American
Black Women Are Disappearing from the Labor Force. That Should Alarm the South.
When Black women begin to fall out of the workforce, the rest of the economy is often not far behind.
March 20, 2026
From the Magazine
Relieving Barriers: Support System in Doctoral Degree Completion for Black Women
Understanding the lived experiences of Black women could shed light on why Black women are not completing doctoral degree programs.
March 19, 2026
Institutions
The Missing Link in the Talent Pipeline: Why Student Voices Matter
As our nation builds a more robust talent pipeline, another valuable opportunity arises: Ask students about their experiences.
March 18, 2026
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