Leaders speak of "following the science" on issues such as the reopening of schools, but this has only aggravated America's culture wars. It's naive to reckon that science can produce policy divorced from human values and biases.
Virtual learning has taken a toll on students, so how do we reverse that and make the world feel larger for students? One possibility is scheduled to occur this week as the Perseverance Mars Rover spacecraft touches down and brings us one step closer to the first manned mission to the red planet.
As schools look to spend enormous sums on education technology, personal protective equipment, and remediation programs, they have an obligation to ensure that they’ll actually be used and won’t languish on the shelf.
Declining enrollments in private and four-year colleges owing to demographics, the COVID-19 pandemic and tougher restrictions on foreign enrollment, such as from China, are putting unprecedented financial pressure on private and four-year college and their communities.
Colorado has a growing chorus of voices in support of postsecondary education at the Capitol and beyond: the Colorado Trustee Network, a coalition of public college and university trustees who have come together—not on behalf of their own institution, but on behalf of students and public higher ed.