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Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

A Dispatch From the Sandwich Generation

Transitions, and connections between the generations.

By Matt Reed

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Lessons for the Silly Season

Why do colleges get commencement speakers wrong every year?

By Steven Poskanzer

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Columns Editor’s Note

How to Instill a Love of Learning in Students

Showing students how to be curious is a hard-to-quantify return on investment for a college degree, but one that pays lifelong dividends.

By Sara Custer

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Columns Beyond Transfer

States Need a Road Map for Credit for Prior Learning

How states can scale credit for prior learning.

By Lindsay Daugherty et al.

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Rethinking Shared Governance

These systems can shield leaders from accountability.

By Ron Liebowitz

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Career Advice Teaching

The Real Problem With AI in STEM Education

The issue isn’t that our students are using it. It’s that they aren’t equipped to evaluate its outputs.

By Moones Alamooti

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Columns Learning Innovation

‘Empire of AI,’ AGI and the University

What if we are having the wrong campus AI conversations?

By Joshua Kim

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Columns Debatable Ideas

‘Gays for Hamas’ and Other Imaginary Signs of the Culture Wars

A reminder that even the smartest people are vulnerable to dumb ideas whenever we start dividing the world into us and them and dismissing our enemies as awful people.

By John K. Wilson