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To Fix Higher Ed’s Problems, Start With Gen Ed

We must revitalize general education—and, in doing so, we will begin to solve other problems facing the university.

By Paula Marantz Cohen

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Teaching Toward Slow Hope

An interview with Douglas Haynes about his new book pointing a new way forward for higher education.

By John Warner

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No, I Don’t Want My Article Turned Into a Podcast

Scholars who don’t want Academia.edu to use AI to generate adaptations of their work should delete their accounts.

By Joelle Renstrom

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The Odd Couple: Don’t Go Changing

Rachel and Gordon chat about why faculty are resistant to change.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

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Workplace Hygiene: Salutary Habits to Combat the Great Detachment

One of the best things higher ed can do in this moment is focus on improving the quality of workplace interactions.

By Raymond E. Crossman

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A Critique of the New UW Madison Faculty Survey

There are serious problems with the survey questions, and we need to be careful not to adopt the author’s claims about “ideological imbalance and its consequences” uncritically.

By John K. Wilson

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The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat

Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

By Dominique J. Baker

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AI Is Not Replacing Learning—It’s Exposing Where Learning Was Thin to Begin With

Have we been assessing learning all this time, or just outputs?

By Xinyao Yi