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5 Science-Backed Ways to Improve Academic Writing
There’s a science behind writing clearer sentences, Yellowlees Douglas writes.
Martin Luther King Misrepresented in Anti-DEI Congressional Hearing
Any policy or practice in higher education or elsewhere that insists on colorblindness is a misrepresentation of King’s stance.
It’s Time to Stand for Something
What Ruth Simmons taught me about leadership and our responsibility to fight for higher ed.
Why Administrators Fail
Joe P. Dunn offers some best practices gleaned from a more than 50-year faculty tenure.
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.
Featured Gig: Learning Experience Designer at Boston College
Four questions about the role for Brian L. Salerno, executive director, Center for Digital Innovation in Learning.
Embracing the Arc of Time
Everything feels urgent, but good things in higher ed take a long time to develop, Mark L. Putnam writes.
Timeless Texts, Lifelong Lessons
Strategies for designing core texts courses for today’s students.