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Intersectional Acknowledgment of Violence Against Black Trans Girls and Women

On this International Transgender Day of Visibility, I am highlighting the intersectional implications of minimizing the particular harms of legislative transphobia on Black people.

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Opinion

The Post-Human Dissertation

Doctoral education must rethink its most sacred artifact.

Opinion

Viewpoint Diversity and the University of Tomorrow: A Reply to John Wilson

Wilson’s criticisms of our book on viewpoint diversity lack evidence and are evidence of the problems the book addresses.

Opinion

The Complexity Curve

At a certain point of understanding, simplicity and clarity return, albeit with more nuance.

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Opinion

No, Higher Ed Mergers Have Never Been Strategic

The history of two universities that (e)merged in the 1960s shows that parochialism and acquisitiveness have always driven institutional marriages more than logic.

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Opinion

The Downward Spiral of the NSF’s GRFP

Under the Trump administration, the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program has strayed from its historic mission of funding the most meritorious candidates regardless of STEM field.

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A Different Kind of AI Disclosure Statement

If faculty use AI in building a course, we should insist and perhaps require that they disclose it. But where’s the magic in that?