Topic: Colleges and Universities
Choosing College In Fraught Times
As high school seniors approach college decision time, a longtime university president offers guidelines for picking schools that value respect, freedom and choice
By Elaine Maimon
What Temple’s New President Must Do
A longtime university president urges the Temple Board of Trustees to select a successor who embodies the best of late President JoAnne Epps
By Elaine Maimon
Why PA Must Fund our Public Universities
Disparities in higher ed lead to societal inequities and damage our democracy. That’s why, a longtime university president urges, our state must do better
By Elaine Maimon
Got Student Debt? Heed this Advice.
A long-time university president on the quick and easy way to ease the debt burden for the thousands of Americans facing an increase in their monthly payments
By Elaine Maimon
Guest Commentary: No One Should Go Hungry in College
More than 20 percent of all college students — and 35 percent of Black students — don’t have enough to eat. We have the tools, a renowned scholar and advocate says, to ensure everyone is well-fed
By Sara Goldrick-Rab
Ideas We Should Steal: Help Everyone Be Like Shaq
A longtime university administrator helped the NBA superstar finish his college degree. Now, she urges Philly colleges to make it easy for less famous almost-grads to get their diplomas, too
By Elaine Maimon
College Diversity Without Affirmative Action
A long-time university president reflects on what it would take for selective colleges and universities to diversify their campuses. Spoiler alert: We already know how to do it.
By Elaine Maimon
Pennsylvania, Resolve the Budget Impasse
A long-time university president recalls the dire consequences to public higher education of an Illinois budget stalemate — and urges legislators to ensure that doesn't happen here
By Elaine Maimon
Meet Philadelphia’s Cosmic Writers
This nonprofit brings out the creative writer in school-age students in Philly and beyond. In a city with an abysmal literacy rate, these efforts are paying off.
By Courtney DuChene
The Unfairness of Students for ‘Fair’ Admissions
The Students for Fair Admissions’ Supreme Court case that struck down affirmative action was not about fairness in college admissions. It was about race.
By Jemille Q. Duncan