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A Better Metaphor: The Student as Client

Keith B. Murray argues that thinking of students as customers gets the professor’s role all wrong.

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Spring Ahead

Social trust is fraying, zombie bugs are on the loose and human ingenuity never fails to surprise—Scott McLemee rounds up select forthcoming titles from university presses.

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To Use AI or Not to Use AI? A Student’s Burden

In shifting much of the responsibility for upholding academic integrity from instructors to students, we leave students with an unfair burden, Daniel Cryer writes.

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Some Things Never Change

You know there’s something wrong when the proportion of low-income students at elite colleges has barely changed over a century, Jim Jump writes.

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A New Attitude: Why McMahon Isn’t DeVos 2.0

Daniel A. Collier writes that Linda McMahon’s approach as secretary of education may not mirror that of Betsy DeVos.

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Rethinking Awards Processes

Annmarie Caño suggests systemic changes to awards and recognition processes to make them more inclusive and less prone to bias.

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Change for the Better

Melinda Manning, an erstwhile critic of UNC Chapel Hill’s Title IX processes, writes that she was happily surprised to see improved processes in action.

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Big AI Companies Need Higher Ed … but Does Higher Ed Need Them?

Building reliance on Silicon Valley AI companies carries risks, Collin Bjork writes.