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Shifting responsibility for student loans to the Treasury Department makes sense for students and taxpayers, while making it easier to shut down the Education Department.

By Andrew Gillen

Computer-based testing is a far better alternative.

By Armando Fox and Craig Zilles

Graduate students face different challenges when it comes to participating in university leadership positions—positions that, all too often, they view as largely performative.

By Stephen Bryant et al.

We need federal leadership to build on short-term Pell Grants and expand rural middle-skills pathways.

By Kristin Hultquist

Declining public confidence in higher ed makes tenure as we’ve known it untenable—but that doesn’t mean we should end it altogether. Reforms should focus on accountability.

By Bryan Paul

With AI there are no easy answers. But that doesn’t stop some of the commentators.

By David Galef

We must revitalize general education—and, in doing so, we will begin to solve other problems facing the university.

By Paula Marantz Cohen

Scholars who don’t want Academia.edu to use AI to generate adaptations of their work should delete their accounts.

By Joelle Renstrom