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U.S.C. Cancels Valedictorian’s Speech After Pro-Israel Groups Object
The university cited security concerns at the graduation. But the student, who is Muslim, said the...
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Opinion | Anxious Parents Are the Ones Who Need Help
Today’s parents are suffering from anxiety about their children’s anxiety, and it’s not easy to persuade...
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Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?
Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school...
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Opinion | The Appalling Tactics of the ‘Free Palestine’ Movement
What does it say about a cause that won’t weed out its worst members or stamp...
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Opinion | Elite College Admissions Have Turned Students Into Brands
Teenagers should not have to commoditize themselves for the sake of getting into an elite school.
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Opinion | The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life
What happens when liberalism and Zionism can no longer be reconciled?
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Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling
He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made...
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Opinion | Colleges Are Putting Their Futures at Risk
When schools become overtly political, they put their future at risk.
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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...
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The Misguided War on the SAT
Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the...
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Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism
Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, William Ackman,...
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Opinion | The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit
Merit, itself, cannot be defined. That is why the concept is so useful for slippery slopes.
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Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.