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The Wrong Remedy
Tony Banout asks if aggressive state and federal intervention will destroy higher ed in a supposed attempt to save it.
Is AI Finally a Way to Reduce Higher Ed Costs?
AI could free up faculty time to focus on the teaching and relationship-building that matter most, José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson write.
A Passover Reminder
The Seder liturgy reminds us that too many colleges are creating students who don’t know how to ask a question, Rachel Fish writes.
Let’s Make Later Deposit Deadlines Permanent
Colleges are extending admission commitment deadlines due to FAFSA delays, but there’s no good reason they can’t do this every year, Chuck Knepfle writes.
Knowing Our Fast-Changing Ocean
Scott McLemee reviews Tessa Hill and Eric Simons’s At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans.
California Should Create a New ‘New College’
In condemning Republican assaults on higher ed, we should ask too what Democrats are doing to defend it, Paul Hansen writes.
Higher Ed on the Hot Seat (Again)
Columbia’s president has a chance to tell a different story during today’s Congressional hearing on antisemitism, Teresa Valerio Parrot and Erin A. Hennessy write.
A New Way to Think About Plagiarism
To figure out whether an accusation of plagiarism is serious, apply the counterfactual test, Garrett Pendergraft writes.