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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Will Universities Pledge Allegiance or Draw a Line?
Universities clearly know how to fight when they decide to, but how institutions frame the fight determines whether resistance can take hold.
June 16, 2026
Opinion
What Have You Done For Us Lately? A Case Study in Public Impact.
When an op-ed on reparations reached classrooms and influenced national medical policy, it underscored a growing reality for higher education: the most consequential scholarship may be the work that changes communities, not just academic résumés.
June 15, 2026
Institutions
Economic Mobility Requires Global Access
As universities promise to prepare students for a global workforce, this professor argues that true economic mobility depends on making global learning accessible to every student — not just those who can afford to travel.
June 12, 2026
Views
Safety Is a Feeling: The Trust Gap That Undermines Readiness
Campus safety isn’t just what’s written in plans or installed in buildings—it’s whether students and staff trust the system enough to speak up, act quickly, and stay engaged before a crisis happens.
June 11, 2026
Institutions
HBCUs Are Not Waiting to Be Saved
HBCU leaders gathered at Johnson C. Smith University not to plead for survival, but to map a future defined by strategy, scale, and unapologetic institutional ambition.
June 10, 2026
Views
We, the People, Have the Power
From the dismantling of intersectional studies in our universities to the surveillance of our private lives, the assault on marginalized identities is systemic— and our response must be collective.
June 9, 2026
Students
Student Loan Caps Could Make the Nursing Shortage Even Worse
New student loan caps could shrink the nursing pipeline. Fewer advanced nursing students means fewer educators and less access to care.
June 8, 2026
Views
Student Debt is Near $2 Trillion. Here's What It's Doing to Higher Education
Credentials alone no longer guarantee economic stability, especially when curricula increasingly emphasize short-term job skills over the broader intellectual foundation that fosters adaptability, creativity, and lifelong learning.
June 5, 2026
Best Practices
Colleges Keep Fixing Their Messaging. They're Avoiding the Real Problem.
Colleges try large scale rebranding to avoid fallout on hard discussions.
June 4, 2026
Opinion
Speaking Out for Discovery and Workforce Education
From cancer treatments to food safety, the vital university research conducted at colleges and universities around the country relies on federal support — making looming funding cuts a direct threat to American innovation and health.
June 3, 2026
Views
What Happens When States Decide Which Knowledge Matters
When states decide what knowledge matters, students lose choices, communities lose voices, and public higher education loses its purpose.
June 2, 2026
Opinion
When Students Fall Through the Cracks, They Don't Just Lose a Degree, They Lose Everything
Missing from every graduating class is the student who started that academic journey and did not finish it. That student left campus quietly, without ceremony, carrying debt without the credential that was supposed to justify it. Their story does not appear in graduation programs. It shows up years later in default statistics — and that gap, between who we celebrate and who we leave behind, is one of the most consequential failures in American higher education today.
May 27, 2026
Views
Teaching Negotiation as Workforce Preparation: A Practical Framework for Higher Education
Negotiation is a foundational workplace competency with measurable economic consequences. And it disproportionately affects students from historically underrepresented groups.
May 18, 2026
Views
Developing a Philosophy of Technology Use
Georgetown computer science professor Cal Newport offers a critical, yet pragmatic perspective for those interested and concerned about professional efficacy and personal wellbeing in a technology-saturated culture.
May 15, 2026
Opinion
California's Moral Test: Fund the Black-Serving Institutions Grant Program Now
Community colleges, regional state universities, and HBCUs do the hardest work with the thinnest margins.
May 13, 2026
From the Magazine
What Higher Education Will and Won’t Do When Harm Is Public
Every spring, the NCAA’s March Madness tournament draws enormous public attention, with women’s college basketball now commanding a larger share of viewership than it once did.
May 12, 2026
Opinion
The High Cost of Disregarding the Student Transition Experience
For many students, the transition from high school to college is more abrupt, less supported, and more uneven than institutions often assume.
May 11, 2026
Views
Why Depth, Not Breadth, Is the Key to Modern School Leadership
Movement School CEO Kerri-Ann Thomas writes that in an era of unprecedented complexity, the most effective school leaders are trading flashy new frameworks for the clarity and consistency that drive long-term success.
May 5, 2026
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