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Higher Education in 2025: AGI Agents to Displace People

The new year may bring a host of virtual assistants and administrative staff to higher education. They will begin as assistants to humans, then over time they will evolve into autonomous AI staff members.

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Rethinking Awards Processes

Annmarie Caño suggests systemic changes to awards and recognition processes to make them more inclusive and less prone to bias.

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Death Is Not the End

Secular society and the search for meaning in mortality.

An illustration of a gauge indicating three levels of satisfaction—a red section with a frowning face, a yellow section with a neutral face, and a teal level with a smiling face. The needle points to the low end of the yellow, neutral range. A female standing atop the gauge has lassoed the needle with a rope and appears to be attempting to pull it toward the smiling, positive side of the gauge.
Career Advice

Imagining More Sustainable Higher Ed Careers

Genia M. Bettencourt, Lauren N. Irwin and Rosemary J. Perez offer strategies for achieving more sustainable careers even as they call for a deeper reimagining of roles.

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Change for the Better

Melinda Manning, an erstwhile critic of UNC Chapel Hill’s Title IX processes, writes that she was happily surprised to see improved processes in action.

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Is the Arts World Shifting Rightward?

Conservative currents in art, music and literature.

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3 Questions on ‘Recentering Relationships: What We Learned From Building Closeness at a Distance’

A conversation with Molly Chehak and David Ebenbach on their chapter in Recentering Learning.