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Toward a More Equitable Research Enterprise
Sharing the wealth in terms of federal research dollars would improve the quality of education for many students and increase U.S. competitiveness, Kim Wilcox writes.
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Why Does Physicist Barbie Want to Wear Pants?
If “femininity” and “physicist” cannot coexist even in Barbieland, how are we ever to support their coexistence in the real world, Natasha Holmes asks.
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Walking Faculty Back from the Cliff
With many faculty members exhausted and burned out, higher ed needs to take the well-being of its employees seriously, Sean McCandless, Bruce McDonald and Sara Rinfret write.
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‘Dear Colleague’—A Love Letter
The Biden-Harris administration’s guidance on race-conscious admissions offers hope to affirmative action’s advocates and benefactors—and love, Phelton Moss writes.
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The ‘Native Speaker’ Fallacy
Stop telling students to have their essays checked by a native English speaker, Kino Zhao writes.
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What’s Missing From the Discourse on ‘Harm’
Recognizing the very real trauma many students from historically marginalized backgrounds bring to campus is not the same as coddling them, Nimisha Barton writes.
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Why Aren’t We Asking Questions of AI?
As students and professors grow more skilled at commanding chatbots to produce the outputs they want, Sean Ross Meehan wonders what this will mean for question-based inquiry.
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Does Humanities Research Still Matter?
The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.
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