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Raymond Boyd / Getty Requiem for the Spartans
The school I love is forever changed.
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Jenn Ackerman / NYT / Redux Who’s Afraid of a Portrait of Muhammad?
When Hamline University cut ties with a professor who showed a painting of Muhammad, it sided with the most intolerant element of the American Muslim spectrum.
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Hill Street Studios Academic Freedom Is Not a Matter of Opinion
Students should not decide a college’s curriculum.
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Getty; The Altantic The Consolidation-Disruption Index Is Alarming
Science has a crummy-paper problem.
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Mark Harris; Getty Why Some Students Are Skipping College
A new crop of Americans simply doesn’t want to take on debt.
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Tara Pixley for The Atlantic and ProPublica ‘It’s Making Us More Ignorant’
Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-critical-race-theory legislation is already changing how professors in Florida teach.
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Ben Hickey What It’s Like to Retire in Your Early 20s
Some former college athletes face the existential crisis of a career ending at a young age.
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Christopher Capozziello / NYT / Redux Why Yale Law School Left the U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Dean Heather Gerken says it’s her belief that “this is not where students should get their information from.”
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Charles A. Smith / JSU University Communications / … Deion Sanders’s Disappointing Exit
The former NFL star got a great new coaching job. But what happens to schools like Jackson State?
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The College Essay Is Dead
Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.
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Getty What Should Colleges Care About?
Readers weigh in on affirmative action and the future of university admissions.
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Andy Sacks / Getty America After Affirmative Action
Adam Harris on where the end of the policy would leave college and university hopefuls
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic America Ruined College Football. Now College Football Is Ruining America.
Coaches shouldn’t be senators.
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Getty; The Atlantic University of Hypocrisy
Why liberal college professors can’t admit their own complicity
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / … What Americans Don’t Understand About Teachers and Professors
Given that education has become polarized and politicized, it makes sense that educators feel misunderstood and underappreciated.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Adults Still Dream About School
Long after graduation, anxiety in waking life often drags dreamers back into the classroom.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks
President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along.
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Matteo Minnella / A3 / Contrasto / Redux Biden’s Student-Debt Rescue Plan Is a Legal Mess
The good news is that there’s still time to fix it.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic ; Getty How Student Debt Has Contributed to ‘Delayed’ Adulthood
The irony of attending college in the U.S. is that the burden of paying for it can prevent it from serving its purpose of launching young adults into stable, fulfilling lives.
