--- --- # How to Fix Fraternities by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can returning to their roots help fix frats?**](http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/On-fraternities---manliness-8167) By Emily Esfahani Smith in the New Criterion **2\.** [**The top reason students struggle academically doesn’t have anything to do with schools.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/poverty-family-stress-are-thwarting-student-success-top-teachers-say/2015/05/19/17f2e35a-fe3c-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4%5Fstory.html) By Lyndsey Layton in the Washington Post **3\.** [**Why we should keep Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks off the $20 bill.**](http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2015/04/keep%5Fharriet%5Ftubman%5Fand%5Frosa%5Fparks%5Foff%5Fthe%5F20%5Fbill.html) By Kirsten West Savali in the Root **4\.** [**Should the U.S. stop trusting Pakistan?**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/05/19/u-s-pakistan-relations-beyond-frenemies/) By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman in the Reuters Great Debate **5\.** [**Calls to reform Islam ignore the bloody history of religious reformation.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/17/islam-reformation-extremism-muslim-martin-luther-europe) By Mehdi Hasan in the Guardian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Fraternities: How to Fix Them ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3892464/how-to-fix-fraternities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3892464/how-to-fix-fraternities/"},"headline":"How to Fix Fraternities","datePublished":"2015-05-21T16:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:22.677Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3892464/how-to-fix-fraternities/","keywords":["Innovation","Pakistan","School","Islam"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3892464/how-to-fix-fraternities/","name":"How to Fix Fraternities"}}]}] ```