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Opinion

Making Service Visible

Asking faculty to submit a service portfolio could move the needle on “service slacking” and bring individual and institutional benefits, Beth Mitchneck writes.

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This Summer, Make a Plan to Prepare Grad Students to Defend Academic Freedom

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill offers suggestions for a summer action plan.

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Why Grad Students Can’t Afford to Ignore AI 

Dinuka Gunaratne offers a framework for thoughtful engagement.

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Can Intellectual Virtues Re-Energize Teaching?

Rebecca Vidra writes that she is thinking hard this summer about what it means to be an intellectually curious, humble and resilient teacher.

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How to Create an ADHD Academic Community

Maria Akopyan writes that a grad school ADHD group became a career-spanning lifeline.

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Teaching Critiques in a Vexed Political Time

Talia Dan-Cohen considers implications for teaching critiques of power and expertise in a time of wild cross-pollinations across political lines.

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The Long Run

Ultrarunning has a lot to teach about higher ed leadership, Amanda E. Sbriscia writes.

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We Can’t Ban AI, but We Can Friction Fix It

Faculty can do a lot to make it harder, and less enticing, for students to use generative AI, Catherine Savini writes.