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College students with disabilities are too often excluded

Christa Bialka, Villanova University AnnCatherine Heigl, a sophomore at George Mason University, recently attempted to join all eight sororities at her school. All eight turned...

Thinking about borrowing against your home to send your kids to...

Jacob William Faber, New York University and Peter Rich, Cornell University When the time comes to send their children off to college, many parents in...

Black student activists face penalty in college admissions

Ted Thornhill, Florida Gulf Coast University Back when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting...

Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact

Anne C. Bailey, Binghamton University, State University of New York When protesters tore down the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina...

Could college textbooks soon get cheaper?

Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst How much money do students spend on college textbooks? The answer is:...

Why the Democrats’ new ‘debt-free’ college plan won’t really make college...

Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University and Dennis A. Kramer II, University of Florida Rising student loan debt and concerns about college affordability got considerable attention...

Some want to get rid of college majors – here’s how...

Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University Should college majors be a thing of the past? That idea received a fresh airing when author Jeffrey Selingo...

Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on

Tricia Serio, University of Massachusetts Amherst In the past month the National Science Foundation and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators both introduced measures that...

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