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Opinion

Why I’m Excited About ChatGPT

Here are 10 ways ChatGPT will be a boon to first-year writing instruction, Jennie Young writes.

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Opinion

Students, Meet the Superego

Taking seriously Freud’s concept of the moralistic inner critic can help students live less stressed, less vexed and more fulfilling lives, Mark Edmundson writes.

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Opinion

The Launch of the Long Game

To understand today’s conservative attacks on higher ed, look to the ambitious pro-corporate agenda laid out in the 1971 Powell memo, Linda Stamato writes.

Opinion

An Absurd Record

A high school student thinks he broke the record for being admitted to colleges. He and his school should ask whether it was worth it.

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Opinion

What Goes Up When Art Comes Down?

An artist residency program can offer a model for colleges with bare walls and empty pedestals following the removal of divisive art, Michael Patullo writes.

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Opinion

Getting ‘Unwired’

Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.

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Opinion

Solving the Credit–for–Prior Learning Equity Paradox

New approaches to CPL can result in more adult college students and more equitable outcomes for them, writes Michelle Navarre Cleary, an educator focused on adult learners’ success. She offers four actions to take.

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Opinion

Getting a Grip on ChatGPT

Considering what academia got wrong about Wikipedia helps to crystallize the questions we should be asking about ChatGPT and our knowledge environments, Barbara Fister and Alison J. Head write.