Interview With an AI Higher Ed Fundraiser

In an effort to augment—not replace—its human fundraising staff, William & Mary launched Wren, an AI-powered virtual engagement officer, last week. Inside Higher Ed interviewed Wren about her approach.

Ph.D. Graduate Blasts Twitter After Her Dissertation Is Trolled

Ally Louks reflects on the “baseless“ and “outlandish“ hate comments she received after posting a selfie with her dissertation on “the politics of smell” in prose.

Listen: Customized GPT Assists Students With Coursework, Learning

In a new episode of Voices of Student Success, hear from a college administrator and faculty member about how generative AI can supplement student learning and fill prior knowledge gaps.

A Recipe for Success Coaching

Colleges are using success coaching initiatives to help boost students’ academic achievement. Here are seven research-based principles in coaching for student success.

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The Terrifying Meekness of Administrators

Ezra Levinson writes that college leaders do not seem prepared to protect students like her during a second Trump administration.

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A Better Metaphor: The Student as Client

Keith B. Murray argues that thinking of students as customers gets the professor’s role all wrong.

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To Use AI or Not to Use AI? A Student’s Burden

In shifting much of the responsibility for upholding academic integrity from instructors to students, we leave students with an unfair burden, Daniel Cryer writes.

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Faculty Must Protect Their Labor from AI Replacement

If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.

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Featured Gig: Learning Experience Designer at Stanford

An important new job at the Doerr School of Sustainability.

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Sexuality and the Self

How sexuality, long confined to the private sphere, became a key public marker of identity.

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Ungrading for Hope

Tony Perman shares four key benefits and how, at best, ungrading helps create a classroom community that can take a semester’s journey in tandem.

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How and Why You Should Build a Style Sheet

For authors in the humanities and social sciences, creating a style sheet can strengthen your text and offer insight into the values shaping your choices, Tess C. Rankin writes.

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5 Strategies for Strengthening Academic Administrator–Faculty Partnerships

Mabel Perez-Oquendo offers advice for building strong collaborations for student and trainee success.

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Trump and Higher Ed

Donald Trump is poised to leave his mark on higher education once again. This time around, higher education is under more scrutiny and Republicans, back in control of Congress, have a plan to overhaul the sector. Below, you’ll find a curated collection of Inside Higher Ed articles that document how higher ed fared during Trump’s first term and what’s in store as he returns to the White House.