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Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance

April 13, 2020

An illustration of the letter M with torn images.

The Real Lesson of the College Closures

March 16, 2020

An empty college library

Educational Institutions Should Engage More—Not Less—With China

February 25, 2020

Evidence That Conservative Students Really Do Self-Censor

Conor Friedersdorf

February 16, 2020

Counterprotesters waiting for Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley in 2017

The Easiest Reform for College Admissions

Natasha Warikoo

January 29, 2020

The Johns Hopkins University

Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

Ronald J. Daniels

January 18, 2020

Students walk across the quad at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

The Moral Hazard of Dealing With China

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

January 11, 2020

Liu Yandong shakes hands with Stephen Schwarzman as the first class of Schwarzman scholars applaud.

The College Wealth Premium Has Collapsed

January 8, 2020

Graduating class in line

A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

David W. Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Kevin M. Levin

December 9, 2019

On Monday, August 20, 2018, police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

What’s the Difference Between a College and a University?

November 19, 2019

The College Campuses That Moonlight as Wedding Venues

November 13, 2019

Six-Figure Price Tags Are Coming to Colleges

November 8, 2019

The NCAA Had to Cut Athletes a Better Deal

October 30, 2019

Trump Has No Room for Error in 2020

Ronald Brownstein

October 24, 2019

President Trump speaks into a microphone at a campaign rally as supporters, one wearing a white cowboy hat, look on.

The College-Admissions Scandal Was Better Than a Movie

October 16, 2019

The NCAA Will Never Fix Itself

October 14, 2019

College Students Just Want Normal Libraries

October 4, 2019

Harvard Won This Round, but Affirmative Action Is Weak

October 2, 2019

The Conversation

Letters: College Presidents Should Focus on ‘Mission, Purpose, and Student Success’

October 2, 2019

Young Black Athletes Are Starting to Understand Their Power

October 2, 2019

Josh Christopher

How College Changes the Parent-Child Relationship

September 23, 2019

The First of the ‘Yale Women’

September 22, 2019

Why I Cover Campus Controversies

Conor Friedersdorf

September 21, 2019

College student holding "On Strike for Free Speech" sign at protest

A Secret 1950s Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

September 19, 2019

Heman Sweatt (<i>right</i>) at the University of Texas

The Price of Ascending America’s Class Ladder

September 16, 2019

The Democrats Aren’t Talking About Education Issues They Can Change

September 13, 2019

What the Right Doesn’t Understand About Black Colleges

September 13, 2019

People in graduation caps sit together.

Welding Won’t Make You Rich

September 13, 2019

An image of a welding mask with a downward trending graph on top.

The Most Popular Names of This Year’s College Freshmen

September 12, 2019

Betsy DeVos’s Extraordinary Crackdown on Michigan State

September 10, 2019

STEM Is Overrated

September 10, 2019

Graduates throwing caps in the air

Colleges Face Growing International Student-Visa Issues

September 6, 2019

A close-up photo of a passport stamp

It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges

October 2019 Issue

Patches spell out "HBCU."

17 Questions Every College Should Be Asking

September 4, 2019

How I Became an ‘Accidental’ Professor

Jennine Capó Crucet

September 3, 2019

Why College Became So Expensive

September 3, 2019

A student's graduation cap