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Opinion

5 Tips for Navigating Lame Duck–Ness

Your task is to help your institution or unit transition to new leadership, while managing your own complex emotions.

Opinion

Northwestern’s Complicity With the Trump Regime

We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators.

Opinion

A Sense of Agency

Yes, job training is important. But people are more than workers.

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Opinion

States Should Step Up on Graduate School Aid

States can offer targeted grants and zero- or low-interest loans to keep grad school pathways open after the end of Grad PLUS.

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Opinion

Plan to Pivot: A Survival Guide for Scientists

Career agility is no longer optional for Ph.D.s. Here’s how to build it.

Opinion

Indiana’s Attack on Intellectual Diversity

Already used to suspend a professor, Indiana’s Act 202 curtails academic freedom and limits the plurality of viewpoints on campus.

Opinion

The New Cliff Facing Higher Ed and How AI Might Help Solve It

There is a new “cliff” in American higher education, and it is not the demographic cliff. Rather, it is the dramatic cliff in math knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Opinion

The Case for AI as Accommodation

Treating AI as optional risks perpetuating ableism in higher ed.