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Reading the Rules for Rule Makers, Part 1

Conflating academic freedom with perceived viewpoint diversity: such a fundamental category error as to imply bad faith.

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(Some) Starter Questions for Measuring Learning

Let’s do it, if we’re going to do it.

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Mattering in a System That Doesn’t Always Make You Feel That Way

Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose, answers questions about what it means to matter and how to build it into the way we lead students, teams and ourselves.

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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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Opinion

‘The Random Factor’ and Alt-Ac Careers

Luck and nonfaculty educators.

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Opinion

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.