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Opinion

Academics Are Workers

Tenure can be confusing, even for those who have it. Here’s why academia’s most unique work practice is—and isn’t—so special.

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Opinion

Set the World on Fire

As AI reshapes higher ed, could teaching students how to be good human beings save it?

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The Number We’re Not Counting

An absenteeism-adjusted participation rate.

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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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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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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.