Education cannot be a privilege reserved for the few. That conviction led me to create the Nsouli Scholars Programme: a commitment to democratize opportunity and build pathways for the next generation ...

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the horrific day that Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan. In the year since the attempted murder, Yousafzai has ...

Bill Schubart is a regular columnist for VTDigger. He is a retired businessman and active fiction writer, and was a former chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the parent organization for VTDigger. ...

As is evident in the scheduling of the academic year, the nondenominational prayers offered at commencement ceremonies, and the accommodations made by dining-room meal plans, a “Christian privilege” ...

This year, I made a New Year’s resolution to not take my college education for granted. Very rarely do we settle down in our lives to put things into perspective. Too often, many university students, ...

The U.S. bleeds the idea that one gets out what one puts into any endeavor, but this idea is only a myth-for non-whites at least. A recent study conducted by Katherine Milkman and others at The ...

Decolonize my syllabus, decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand ...

Today’s guest blogger is Jamil Zaki, an associate professor of psychology at Stanford University and the author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World. How can I talk with ...