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Opinion

How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance, Before Shutting Down CCCC

The National Council of Teachers of English leadership delayed and obstructed our efforts to produce two critical resources on generative AI in the months leading to the dismantling of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

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Opinion

Teaching College Men About Inequality, Power and Sexism Shouldn’t Be Optional

The Cornell case shows why universities should make sustained education about gender, power and sexism part of every undergraduate’s education.

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Opinion

AI Literacy and the New Admissions Disadvantage

Admission offices should be transparent about their AI-detection policies and procedures.

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Opinion

The AI Invasion Has Come for Mathematics

Must mathematicians resign themselves to a future in which we are mere advisers to the LLMs and their corporate overlords?

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Opinion

Moral Lessons From the Demoralized

If faculty are to be the sole arbiters of AI cheating, what should the standards of evidence be?

A set of alphabet blocks spells "work week." Two other blocks preceding the others say "short" on one side and "long" on the other and a person's hands can be seen flipping them to the side that says "short."
Opinion

The Time for the 30-Hour Workweek Has Come

Higher ed should lead the way.

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Opinion

Why Do We Keep Debating the M.L.S.?

Here’s why librarians can’t resolve our recurrent arguments about the import of the field’s professional degree.

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Opinion

On Proper Objects of Study

A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word.