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By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It…

I just think that people do not understand how fractious the Republican coalition is. Once you just drill down past Donald Trump loyalty, you get one…

The administration at U of All People has suffered long enough with the underperforming School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Its various departments, programs and whatnot…

I’ve had a meditation practice for about 15 years now, and I got into it thinking it would calm me down. I’ve got a little bit…

Each summer I make a point of stopping by a first-year orientation session at the University of Virginia, where I have been a professor in the…

If people hate Donald Trump, by all means hate Donald Trump. But that doesn’t make you anti-American. It doesn’t make you want to destroy the United…

Inaccessible PDFs are a stubborn problem. How can we marshal the energy within our institutions to make digital course materials more accessible—one PDF, one class, one…

I work at Marquette University. As a Roman Catholic, Jesuit university, we’re called to be an academic community that, as Pope John Paul II wrote, “scrutinize[s] reality…

new video loaded: Crying GlaciertranscriptBacktranscriptCrying GlacierWhat does a melting glacier sound like? Artist Ludwig Berger attempts to record a disappearing environment.When you look at this gigantic…

Scenario 1: You’re part of a cross-disciplinary group of faculty members working on the new general education requirement. By the end of the semester, your group…