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An AI-generated image of a robot-like figure giving a graduation speech.

Turing’s Milestone, Graduation’s Microphone

The Class of 2025 is entering a world fundamentally changed by AI—so Matthew Brophy proposes sending them off with an AI-authored commencement speech.

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Actions Now, Consequences Later

Yes, higher ed has problems, but future generations will not thank us if we tear down the system, David R. Harris writes.

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The Agenda Behind Accreditation ‘Reform’

Accreditation does need reform, but the Trump administration seeks to weaponize it to push an impoverished vision for higher ed, Jeremy D. Penn writes.

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A Return to Racial Quotas in Admission?

The Trump administration seems to view “too many” Black and Hispanic students at a selective college as cause for suspicion, David Hawkins writes.

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What AI Can’t Read: Ambiguities and Silences

By using AI for a task for which it is particularly ill-equipped—analyzing the testimony of Holocaust survivors—students deepen their own thinking, Jan Burzlaff writes.

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Embracing the Arc of Time

Everything feels urgent, but good things in higher ed take a long time to develop, Mark L. Putnam writes.

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Is the Partnership for American Innovation Gone?

Robert A. Brown warns that the U.S. risks an innovation winter.

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Our Debate Over Higher Ed Has Lost the Plot

We need to reorient the national conversation, Lynn Pasquerella writes.