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Catching the Greased Pig

Readers respond on the “kinda, sorta” requirement.

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Follow the Money: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Over four decades, patents, tuition debt and corporate governance turned the American university into a market enterprise. Now the same forces that commercialized higher education use that very transformation to declare it unfit to govern itself.

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A Kinda, Sorta Requirement

Students don’t do optional—but sometimes they also don’t do required.

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It’s Time to Talk About Employee Suicide

Colleges prepare extensively for student suicide, but faculty and staff facing their own crises are often on their own. That needs to change.

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The Education Department’s Push for Accreditation Reform Could Backfire

An agency leader says the proposed rules could disrupt the balance of power and stifle innovation.

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3 Questions for Richard Novak of EduStrategy Group

A conversation with a former Rutgers leader.

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A Constitution Day Interview With Geoffrey Stone on Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump

Join a discussion between John Wilson and two distinguished scholars.

Big School Districts Pause AI Access at School

After nearly four long years of evolving and often conflicting policies since ChatGPT officially emerged, high profile public school districts have decided they now need a moratorium on use of AI to provide even more time to consider policies and practices.