The Raised Hand 4/2/2025 This is the seventh essay in our series addressing the question: “What does every university and college student need to learn?”
Higher Education
A Year Later, Did Our ChatGPT Advice Get It Right?
Inside Higher Ed 1/11/2014 Exactly a year ago, we shared the advice of 11 academics on the then-new ChatGPT. We followed up to see what has changed and what to expect in 2024.
Where Does the Thinking Happen?
Inside Higher Ed 10/11/2023 Johann Neem explores why academe needs discipline-specific responses to ChatGPT
The Beloved, Besieged Humanities Classroom
The Chronicle Of Higher Education 4/21/2023 These are tough times for humanities professors. Flip through The Chronicle and the disillusionment jumps off the page. Post-pandemic students are disengaged. Colleges are cutting humanities programs. Academic libraries,...
Do as I Do, Not as I Say? The Wall Street Hypocrisy on Online Education
Academe Blog 5/28/2020 In a recent New York Times column, NYU business school professor Hans Taparia proclaimed (as many have before) that “the future of college is online.” Whenever I hear these words, I think of a student of mine, a dual major in history and...
Abolish the Business Major!
The Chronicle of Higher Education 8/13/2019 Business is now the largest undergraduate major in the United States. On the face of it, that seems rational. Declining public funding has made college more expensive and has forced students to think about their education as...
Taking It to the Streets: Preparing for an Academy in Exile
ERIC 9/1/2014 For the past century, the academy has found a home in the university--they have been co-constitutive. Rising prices, declining state support, neoliberal assumptions about the value of education and how to fund it, and the growing number of students...