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Opinion

To Grade or Not to Grade … Is the Wrong Question

At Michigan, we hope covering students’ first-semester grades will lessen their stress and encourage them to challenge themselves intellectually.

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Opinion

The View From the Stairwell

The often-overlooked work of higher education’s essential translators—the VPs.

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Opinion

Plagiarism, Even if Proven, Does Not Deserve Moral Prosecution

Jason Arday, neurodivergence and what happens when academic accountability becomes public punishment.

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Opinion

The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Censorship’

The worst combination of mindless bureaucracy and authoritarian control.

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Opinion

3 Questions for Huron’s Kaitlin Dumont

On building a career by connecting universities, ed-tech companies, nonprofits and ideas across higher education.

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Opinion

What’s Worth Teaching? Say It Loud

We can make the capacities we’re implicitly teaching explicit.

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Opinion

Have You Ever Noticed … ?

Gen ed as cultural sense making.

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Opinion

The Fatal, Familiar Takedown of Jason Arday

I wish the vicious envy and violent despising of Black male intellectual leadership had somehow bypassed him.