Safe is a Relative Term
There are risks to reopening but also risks to not bringing students back, especially if they're from communities at risk.
The Summer of Our Discontent
July could end up being one of the worst months American higher education has experienced.
How Americans Feel About College
Surveys taken pre-covid show how some Americans viewed higher education.
A Glimpse at a For-Profit Rebound?
As college enrollments have fallen in recent years, so has student borrowing — especially sharply at for-profit colleges, which have gone through a tumultuous decade. They may now be on the rebound.
‘No Place Is Safe. Not a One.’
#BlackInTheIvory tells black academics: You are not alone. It tells everyone else: It’s time to act.
Propped Up by Privilege
Sixty percent of the students in the top 200 colleges come from the top quartile of family income.
Will Campus Be Closed or Open? Yes.
Colleges have announced wide-ranging plans to potentially reopen in the fall.
The Point of an Endowment
One professor says trustees should shift policies to use large endowments to help their universities in economic crises.
Rome is Burning. Let’s Bash Harvard?
The Education Department is still determining whether the money that wealthy universities are giving up can even be redistributed to other colleges.
What’s Clearer Now
Weeks into our global health crisis, here’s how our perspective has changed. Plus, where relief money is headed. And what’s missing in the land-grant college origin story.