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AI Hallucinations May Soon Be History
An artifact of the race to the top in artificial intelligence is that mistakes inevitably occur. One of those many mistakes apparently led to hallucinations in outputs.
Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too
Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.
Toward a Trauma-Informed Writing Process
What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks.
Featured Gig: eLearning Developer at UConn
Four questions for Desmond McCaffrey, director of UConn Online.
The Em Dash Debate We Should Be Having
All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly unnecessary punctuation mark, Brenda Thomas writes.
Advising The Girl
In good conscience, I can’t recommend she pursue a career teaching literature, at which she would excel.
Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom
In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.
In Defense of Distasteful Faculty Speech
The wave of faculty firings following Charlie Kirk’s killing is a dangerous development for First Amendment principles, Nicholas Creel writes.