Higher education reform is a hot topic in state legislatures this year. From banning legacy admissions to improving civic education to increasing cost transparency, policymakers are challenging the status quo to restore the promise...
By Mae Rum The College Debates and Discourse (CD&D) Alliance’s initiatives expanded dramatically in 2024, bringing immersive debates and workshops to students and faculty on scores of campuses across the nation. While deepening relationships...
Since 2018, the CD&D Alliance has collaborated with hundreds of brilliant higher education faculty who care deeply about their students and their development into critical thinkers, compassionate professionals, and active citizens. For our inaugural...
By Kayla Johnston and Sadie Webb In her final year at the University of North Carolina (UNC)–Greensboro, Lauren Fletcher has made a lasting impact as the Lee Barnes Student Fellow with the College Debates...
According to countless recent headlines, American college students are struggling. Our “best and brightest” are no longer being asked to read or are incapable of doing so, and more and more students rely on...
The American body politic is sick, driven by hyper-partisanship and weakened by ignorance and anger. The root of this national disorder is civic illiteracy, a condition which, left unchecked, leaves swaths of the American...
Every year, the Cornell community elects two alumni to join the board of trustees. The 2025 Cornell Alumni Trustee Elections are taking place now through the end of the month, giving alumni an opportunity...
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