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The Launch of the Long Game
To understand today’s conservative attacks on higher ed, look to the ambitious pro-corporate agenda laid out in the 1971 Powell memo, Linda Stamato writes.
What Goes Up When Art Comes Down?
An artist residency program can offer a model for colleges with bare walls and empty pedestals following the removal of divisive art, Michael Patullo writes.
An Absurd Record
A high school student thinks he broke the record for being admitted to colleges. He and his school should ask whether it was worth it.
Getting ‘Unwired’
Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.
Getting a Grip on ChatGPT
Considering what academia got wrong about Wikipedia helps to crystallize the questions we should be asking about ChatGPT and our knowledge environments, Barbara Fister and Alison J. Head write.
Solving the Credit–for–Prior Learning Equity Paradox
New approaches to CPL can result in more adult college students and more equitable outcomes for them, writes Michelle Navarre Cleary, an educator focused on adult learners’ success. She offers four actions to take.
In Defense of a Real Three-Year Degree
With college costs so high, it is too expensive a luxury to require undergraduates take a four-year course of study, Lou Matz writes.
A Critique of ‘Principled Neutrality’
Vanderbilt’s chancellor thinks academic leaders should stay out of politics—but the ongoing assaults on rights and freedoms emanating from the Tennessee Legislature show the limits of that stance, Brian L. Heuser writes.