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Let’s Get Back to the Town Halls of Yesteryear

Designed for true collaboration, these meetings work best when all parties have equal ownership.

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The Phone Book Challenge

How can educators make the most of ChatGPT? Use it for helping students talk through concepts and practice reasoning and critique, advises Patrick D. Watson.

Opinion

The Modern Prometheus

Dr. Frankenstein was not the only one to give humans what once belonged only to the gods.

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Most Career Outcome Narratives Are Incomplete

Colleges should closely analyze how postgraduation employment outcomes differ based on race, class and first-generation student status, Hayley A. Haywood writes.

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Avoiding Failed Presidencies

Susan Resneck Pierce explores this growing threat to higher education and how presidential searches must change in response.

A political cartoon depicts a speaker at a climate summit outlining benefits of action. The bulleted list reads: “energy independence,” “preserve rainforests,” “sustainability,” “green jobs,” “livable cities,” “renewables,” “clean water, air” “healthy children,” “etc., etc.” A skeptic in the audience asks “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
Opinion

What If the Campus Speech Crisis Is a Hoax…

…and we create a better university for nothing? Leon Sachs argues there’s no harm—and much benefit—in taking concerns about the campus speech climate seriously.

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Ensuring That All College Students Are Scientifically Literate

If we want scientifically literate graduates, discipline-based introductory courses aren’t enough.

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Training Should Happen at Work

Truth is, education is not set up to prepare employees for the specifics of the workplace. That’s a good thing.