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The Atlantic The SAT Isn’t What’s Unfair
MIT brings back a test that, despite its reputation, helps low-income students in an inequitable society.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The College-Admissions Process Is Completely Broken
But it doesn’t have to be.
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
Despite the common refrain from pundits, a grassroots movement is seeing politically divergent undergraduates come together for uncomfortable discussions.
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Paul Bersebach / Orange County Register / Getty Universities Need to Catch Up to the Post-vaccine Reality
Remote learning hurts students.
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Julien James The Football Game That Transcends Tradition
The historic rivalry between Florida A&M University and Bethune-Cookman University goes beyond sports.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / … College Admissions Are Still Unfair
But when fancy schools like Amherst kill legacy preferences, they do get a little fairer.
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Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.
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Getty / The Atlantic Colleges Have a Guy Problem
A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college. The pattern has deep roots.
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Alessandra Sanguinetti / Magnum 16 Things to Remember at College
Advice for my daughter: Do talk to your professors outside of class. Do notice the way the sky changes color. Don’t get too drunk.
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Getty; The Atlantic The University of California Is Lying to Us
Does getting right with contemporary concepts of anti-racism mean reviving one of the state’s most shameful traditions?
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong
America’s higher-education system is designed for childless students who come to college right out of high school, and full of unnecessary obstacles for parents seeking a degree.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning
It is a truth universally acknowledged that elite parents, in possession of excellent jobs, want to get their kids into college.
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Tristan Spinski / The New York Times / … The Colleges That Took the Pandemic Seriously
Many colleges and universities have figured out how to diagnose their populations and control outbreaks—and offer a vision for more normal life until the vaccine is available to all.
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Bettmann / Getty America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience
The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The SAT and the ACT Will Probably Survive the Pandemic—Thanks to Students
Despite colleges dropping their testing requirements because of the coronavirus, students continue to sign up for the exams, believing that a score is the key to admission.
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Getty / The Atlantic Cancel College
Reopening universities will accomplish little and endanger many.
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Jan Buchczik A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
Higher education is often described as an investment. But it’s still unclear if it pays off in happiness.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: I Staked My Identity on Attending an Ivy League School
I’m trying to accept that the school I’m going to is where I am meant to be, but I feel like my accomplishments mean nothing now.
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Arinze Stanley The College President Who Simply Won’t Raise Tuition
Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue’s tuition—at less than $10,000—for seven straight years.
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John Bilous / Shutterstock The Easiest Reform for College Admissions
Many admissions issues are complicated, but preferences for the children of alumni are indefensible.
