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Mondays With Beyoncé in My New USC Marshall M.B.A. Course

The global music mogul’s entrepreneurial success takes center stage in a USC business school course.

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Opinion

An Ode to Overhead Projectors

Now obsolete, they transformed my teaching.

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Opinion

Who Is Left Out if We Stop Writing?

The idea that writing isn’t important is deeply dangerous, and not (only) because writing is thinking.

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Utah Legislative Audit Suggests Reducing Tenure Protections

A post-tenure review report recommends lawmakers consider “streamlining” the process to fire faculty and preventing universities from diverging from it.

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Opinion

The Surprising Upside to a Classroom Full of Distracted Students

I spent months sitting in the back of an undergraduate lecture hall. Here’s what I overheard and saw on students’ screens.

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Moral Lessons From the Demoralized

If faculty are to be the sole arbiters of AI cheating, what should the standards of evidence be?

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A University’s Research on Its Own AI Tool Raised More Questions Than Answers

The University of Maryland ran a randomized, controlled trial of the virtual study assistant it created before deploying across campus. One problem? Just 15 percent of students in the study actually used it.

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2 in 3 Harvard Professors Say AI Has a Negative Impact on Class

Nearly two-thirds of Harvard University faculty members said artificial intelligence has had a “somewhat negative” or “very negative” effect on...