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What Makes a Great Op-Ed? An ‘L.A. Times’ Editor Explains
Op-ed editor Philip Gray shares advice for academics on how to get published in a national paper and how submitting pieces is a numbers game.
Is Your Idea Op-Ed Ready? Here’s a Test to Find Out
Not every academic idea is ready for the opinion page. Here’s how to test your topic and shape it for a public audience.
Don’t Wait for Permission to Write for the Public
You don’t need a public engagement grant or media team to begin. Here’s how—and why—to share your expertise now.
For Solar Eclipse, Colleges Give Physicists Football Star Treatment
Many stadiums will host public watch parties to instill awe, enhance science literacy, and foster community on and off campus. For the rare event, Inside Higher Ed offers a statistical poem.
Facial Recognition Heads to Class. Will Students Benefit?
Innovators plow forward with this technology in a largely unregulated ecosystem. Ethicists and a new National Academies report urge caution.
Does Military AI Research at Universities ‘Benefit Humanity’?
The Pentagon articulates a research focus that includes lethality. But universities that receive military funding often welcome the money with expressions of pride and altruism—and scant mention of the potential for harm.
Technology Students in Africa, Bolstered by ‘Grassroots AI’
Amid South Africa’s perfect storm of few universities, racial inequities and economic disparities, AI students find support in a not-so-grassroots grassroots movement.
In Class, Some Colleges Overlook Technology’s Dark Side
Safety and ethics appear to be elective or nonexistent, rather than fundamental parts of studies, in many computing programs, students at a global forum reported.