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5 Science-Backed Ways to Improve Academic Writing

There’s a science behind writing clearer sentences, Yellowlees Douglas writes.

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A Return to Racial Quotas in Admission?

The Trump administration seems to view “too many” Black and Hispanic students at a selective college as cause for suspicion, David Hawkins writes.

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Why Administrators Fail

Joe P. Dunn offers some best practices gleaned from a more than 50-year faculty tenure.

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Opinion

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.

Opinion

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.

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It’s Time to Stand for Something

What Ruth Simmons taught me about leadership and our responsibility to fight for higher ed.

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.