"When I stepped into the visiting room to see generations of mostly black and Latino men interacting with their kids under the gaze of guards, I was overwhelmed with sadness and anger that this was happening in the United States and that people weren’t talking about it."

“It’s quite possible that this could promote greater assertiveness, maybe aggressiveness, by universities confronting unions at a time when resources are limited and stretched. Clearly, because of the ruling’s full-fledged opposition to the system of private financing and dispute resolution, it will create a lot of instability and litigation.”

An institution’s own history is a topic that can, and should, resonate with everyone. (From 2016)

If we are really committed to elevating human knowledge, are we on the right track? (From 2016)

"As a woman whose life has been transformed by the opportunity to earn an advanced degree, I am deeply saddened that others have had their paths cut short. As a member of the professoriate, I am embarrassed by the behavior of some in my profession. As an administrator, I am determined to do my own part to make the campus environment safer for our students. "

The proposed change risks devaluing liberal education "at a time when we have reduced higher education to employability." said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. "It reinforces the idea that the only value of an education is whether you can get a job upon completion."

One theory in legal circles is that a campus should be a community of rational discourse, where order and morality trumps whatever you feel like saying. But others believe that if there’s any place where free speech should reign, it’s the university.

The travel ban — and more recently, the separation of migrant children from their parents at the U.S.- Mexico border — horrified and galvanized many Americans. But for international students — those already studying in the United States and those thinking of coming here — those little-noticed rules changes and regulatory revisions have continuously ratcheted up anxieties first sowed by the travel ban.

The Education Department found shortcomings in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s current policies for reporting complaints.

"One of my co-workers is having a very difficult time with my transition and tends to avoid me when possible." (From 2017)

Barring speakers or preventing hate speech does not safeguard the oppressed. It empowers the oppressors, and it suggests that their words are to be feared for a compelling, persuasive power that, absent the muzzle, might infect others. (From 2017)

Merging the Departments of Education and Labor is a powerfully bad idea that would solve none of the department’s current problems and would exacerbate some of its most glaring weaknesses. Chief among those weaknesses has been a refusal or an inability to appreciate and understand both the wide variety of types of institutions that make up postsecondary education in the United States and the multiple goals of education within a democracy.

Higher-ed lawyers are still on edge after a chaotic 2017 filled with high-profile protests and tensions surrounding controversial speakers.

Faculty members of color, Rahuldeep Gill says, are “hypervisible when they needed us to be in glossy brochures and invisible when it came to our needs.”