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Rethinking Responding to Student Writing 

New book argues that students respond more effectively to peers’ writing than professors do and that they’re skilled at self-assessment, too. Still, professors can lay the groundwork for this feedback through scripts and other scaffolding.

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Zoom’s Changing Stances on AI and User Data Have Faculty Alarmed

Faculty members joined the social media outrage over Zoom’s ambiguity on using data to feed its AI and machine learning platforms. 

Water as a Weapon: Academic Minute

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Florida International University Week: Shlomi Dinar, professor in the department of politics and...

WSJ Report Finds Sharp Spending Increase at Flagships

A Wall Street Journal analysis looking at two decades’ worth of financial documents found that spending at flagship institutions has...
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How the Farm Bill Can Address Historic Underfunding of HBCU Land-Grants

Historically Black land-grant universities have been underfunded for years, but advocates and administrators say Congress could use the farm bill to change that.

San Francisco to Clear City College Students' Debts

The city of San Francisco is clearing the debts of 13,000 people who could not take courses at the local...
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Success Program Launch: Tech Students Stay Local With Career Exploration

Information science and technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha participate in a four-year, tiered experiential learning program to expose them to workforce opportunities in the state.

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After Racist Writings Revealed, Scholar’s Link to Texas Center Erased

A HuffPost exposé connected a visiting scholar at UT Austin to posts made under a pseudonym. It’s not the center’s first brush with controversy.