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I actually think one of the reasons why some of these universities have made changes without provocation from the Trump administration is because they wanted to.…

Today’s post continues a yearlong series on how to avoid common mistakes made in the name of culturally responsive teaching. Don’t Make Assumptions Laleh Ghotbi is…

Being a teacher for the past two years was a lot of things: challenging, rewarding, frustrating, tiring. Most of all, though, it was an identity shift…

This September when classes started, it wasn’t the first time I had met with the students who walked through the door. That’s because during the week…

Amid rising political violence, the need for nonpartisan civic education has never been clearer. Yet saying, “civic thought” or “civic life and leadership” now reads conservative.…

Despite high-profile federal actions against universities like Columbia University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and others over the past few months, many higher ed watchers,…

One of the things that makes interviews stressful is their unpredictability, which is unfortunately also what makes them so hard to prepare for. In particular, it’s…

Earlier this month, College Board announced its decision to kill Landscape, a race-neutral tool that allowed admissions readers to better understand a student’s context for opportunity.…

On Sept. 10, a public lecture at Utah Valley University became the site of a nightmare when the political commentator Charlie Kirk was killed before thousands of…

How do we teach effectively—and humanly—in this age of AI? New advances in artificial intelligence break news at such a rapid pace that many of us…