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Opinion

The Bad Idea Gaining Traction in Higher Ed

Three-year degrees risk leaving students less prepared for a rapidly changing workforce.

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Opinion

What Can One English Course Actually Teach?

The rise of AI should force my profession to be honest.

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Opinion

What Knot to Do: Academia Needs More Dyslexic Thinkers and Mentors

Doctoral students should be allowed to pursue multimodal research in lieu of the traditional written dissertation.

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Opinion

How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance, Before Shutting Down CCCC

The National Council of Teachers of English leadership delayed and obstructed our efforts to produce two critical resources on generative AI in the months leading to the dismantling of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

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Opinion

Teaching College Men About Inequality, Power and Sexism Shouldn’t Be Optional

The Cornell case shows why universities should make sustained education about gender, power and sexism part of every undergraduate’s education.

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Opinion

AI Literacy and the New Admissions Disadvantage

Admission offices should be transparent about their AI-detection policies and procedures.

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Opinion

The AI Invasion Has Come for Mathematics

Must mathematicians resign themselves to a future in which we are mere advisers to the LLMs and their corporate overlords?

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Opinion

Moral Lessons From the Demoralized

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