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A Course Refresh This Summer

Summers traditionally bring the opportunity to refresh and update the courses we teach, and they also bring the chance to look afresh at the course of our own personal careers.

By Ray Schroeder

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Why Shared Governance Can’t Solve Today’s Student Success Challenges

Higher education has a knowledge problem.

By Aaron Stoller

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Governance State Oversight

Texas’s Higher Ed Overseer Dismisses Dozens of Complaints

Republicans created the ombudsman position to investigate alleged violations of their ban on DEI and their gutting of faculty governance bodies.

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Quick Takes

Prof. Fired for Palestinian Activism Should Be Reinstated, Arbitrator Says

An arbitrator ruled that Sang Hea Kil, a tenured San José State University professor who was fired in 2025 after...
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We Have Never Taught Critical Thinking

AI just makes those failures evident.

By Priten Soundar-Shah and Aidan Kestigian

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Opinion
Career Advice Teaching

Want an Evidence-Based Way to Motivate Your Students? Try Specs Grading

Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

By Linda B. Nilson

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Quick Takes

House Dems Expand Epstein Investigation to Bard, Harvard

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Harvard University and...
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Faculty Learning & Assessment

Can—and Should—Honor Codes Survive in the AI Age?

Experts agree that honor codes are not working like they used to. How they should be reformed—and whether it’s worth reforming them—is up for debate.