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A Call for Cognitive Kindness
Drawing lessons from cognitive psychology, we must transform our courses and university structures to be more kind to students’ minds, Karen Yu writes.
Medicine’s Gutenberg or Schumpter Moment
How to best prepare undergraduates for a world in which artificial intelligence, big data and genomics are the currency of the realm.
Getting the Mentoring You Need
Bill Mahoney and Jaye Sablan share advice on how grad students can shape working relationships with faculty in ways that help them feel supported and be successful.
Why New ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Are Flawed
The new methodology downgrades measures of academic quality while relying on misleading metrics for affordability and career outcomes, Daniel Diermeier writes.
3 Key Themes and 11 Observations From the 2023 edX Global Forum
Notes from the first big in-person edX gathering since the 2U acquisition.
Exorcising ‘The Exorcist’
Scott McLemee reviews Marlena Williams’s Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist.
Invisible Labor and Emotional Currency
Jálin B. Johnson, Nakisha Castillo, Natalie V. Nagthall and Hawani Negussie describe the unseen impacts of higher ed’s cultural taxation on minoritized faculty and eight steps to help diminish those impacts.