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Follow the links below to read the latest articles from Academe and a selection of recent posts from the Academe Blog, or visit the the Academe home page at https://www.aaup.org/academe.

FEATURES

How Diversity Rhetoric Obscures Structural Inequities in Higher Education
Silver-tongued administrators and pissed-off professors.
By Cathryn Bailey

How (Not) to Corporatize a University
Corporate culture is incompatible with shared governance.
By Dane Kennedy

Learning through the Pandemic
Transactional online education is failing our students.
By Robin A. Harper and Michael Orlando Sharpe

Apprehensions, Comprehensions, SARS-CoV-2
Conspiracy theory versus scientific method in a world gone viral.
By Howard V. Hendrix

BOOK REVIEWS

College Financing and the Plight of the Middle Class
Sandy Baum reviews Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost by Caitlin Zaloom.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Life Ate My Homework (July–August 2010)
When students’ complex lives are filled with real crises, real teaching means flexibility and understanding.
By Susan L. Cook and Karen Krupar

FROM THE BLOG

Irene Mulvey Elected AAUP President
By the AAUP

Colleges Should Offer a Pass-Fail Option This Fall
By Kimberly Bernhardt

A Timeline of Our Seven-Year Pursuit of a Living Wage
By Caprice Lawless

Vanessa Guillen and the Ghosts of Sanctuary Campus: On the Schoeller Affair, Campus Protest and ‘Free Speech’
By Rachel Ida Buff

Ending Institutional Racism in Higher Education
By Michael A. Dover

Navigating the Waters of Teaching Culturally Responsive Practices
By Meredith McCool

Ten Ways to Identify Colonized Education Practices
By Rachel Lehman

Uniting Faculty through a Mask Battle
By Matthew Boedy

Power and Trust in the Campus Racial Climate
By John Streamas

FROM THE JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM

On Borders and Academic Freedom: Noncitizen Students and the Limits of Rights
By Abigail Boggs
A preview of the upcoming volume on “Academic Freedom on the Managed Campus.”