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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.
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.
AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse
Universities’ rush to embrace AI will lead to an untenable outcome, Robert Niebuhr writes.
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.
Why I Teach in Prison
Don C. Sawyer III reflects on what the wider world doesn’t get to see.
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.
Peer Instruction Doesn’t Help Underprepared Students
Peer support can increase students’ engagement in a course, but one study found that peer instruction didn’t result in better grades or content knowledge for learners.
One Inaccessible PDF at a Time
As one institution works to meet a federal deadline to make course content more accessible, Diana Theisinger outlines what she and her team have learned about instructor engagement and digital accessibility.