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UChicago Receives $50M Gift to Hire Faculty With AI Expertise
A Town-Gown Partnership Focused on Climate Resilience
As climate change spurs extreme heat waves and flooding in Georgia, Agnes Scott College and the city of Decatur are working together to forge solutions. “This isn’t something a city can do alone,” one official said.
Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where computers teach other computers.
Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI
As universities rush to adopt generative AI–powered tools that claim to enhance teaching, learning and workforce preparation, a growing contingent of academics is questioning where that urgency is coming from and whom it stands to benefit.
How Joint Review Can Boost Faculty Diversity
A new study finds that Black and Hispanic faculty have much higher chances of promotion or tenure when they are evaluated alongside other candidates.
‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ Would Make a Fantastic Online Course
Infectious disease and online learning.
Reflections on the Value of an AI-Assisted Textbook
When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instructors’ time, the professor says.
