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Opinion

What One Year of ‘The Public Scholar’ Taught Me

A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach.

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Opinion

Now Is the Time to Plan and Prepare Your Students and Colleagues on Workplace AI

If ever there was a most important era in which we must emphasize discourse with our students, it is today. We are in the midst of major changes in our culture and society as a whole.

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Who Do You Want to Become?

Students know what college is for. Many of the sector’s critics do not.

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Did We in the Humanities Cause Our Own Demise?

How much are we to blame for the lack of public trust in higher education?

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The Ticks and Leeches of Higher Education

External culprits eating the sector alive by exploiting, capitalizing and profiting off higher education and students stand to weaken and kill it.

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Opinion

Jason Arday’s Death Shouldn’t Affect Who Gets Hired Next

His story should not be used to further undermine efforts to diversify the faculty pipeline.

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Opinion

Trump Attacks Academia—and Grad Students Ask if It’s Worth Saving

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.