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The AI-Augmented Nonteaching Academic in Higher Ed

Generative AI will bring innovations, efficiencies, creativity and effectiveness to most who work at our colleges and universities in the coming year.

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A Primer for Prepping for Tenure Review

Kate Vacek and Letitia Henville offer tips for academics who've just landed their first tenure-track job about how to advance and succeed.

Opinion

Nurturing Talent

The value of mentorship in empowering student success.

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Opinion

Don’t Roll Back Progress on Textbook Affordability

Course material costs have been coming down, but an Education Department proposal puts that progress in jeopardy, Eric Weil and Michael Moore write.

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Opinion

The Problem With Participation Grades (and How to Solve It)

The benefits are well documented, but the practice can be subjective and prone to instructor biases, warns Anna Broadbent.

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‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ and the Adaptable Campus

Climate change and higher education’s built environment.

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Opinion

Rethinking Respect

Colleges can help students cultivate civic respect—a value more easily affirmed than granted in our polarized climate, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse write.

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Opinion

Student Visa Denials Threaten U.S. Competitiveness

College leaders should focus immigration lobbying efforts on state lawmakers, in addition to federal ones, Samba Dieng writes.