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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you remember this exchange between Lisa and Homer Simpson from a 1991 episode of the animated sitcom. As an example, you might read an opinion essay that the great American studies scholar Andrew Delbanco recently published in The Washington Post.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. An opinion piece in The New York Times entitled “ Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month ” blames T.S. Op eds these days are intended to provoke, annoy, and bait clicks. ” Why did an op-ed on T.S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I, like you, have no doubt asked ChatGPT, the open AI-powered text generator, to respond to some questions and been dazzled by the results. I also asked it how AI will transform higher education. I found the results thought-provoking. ” Not bad, methinks.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A now forgotten turn-of-the-20th-century song, “Do You Believe Your Baby or Your Eyes?” As we know from the college rankings, higher education isn’t immune from the tyranny of metrics and the incentives to distort or omit data.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! For all the emphasis that higher education places on critical thinking, the sad fact is that colleges and universities devote even less sustained attention to cultivating this skill than to preparing students to write well.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I don’t know whether Outer Space is, as Star Trek tells us, the final frontier, but I know full well that physical space is among campus’ biggest sources of conflict. Where we park, where we teach, and whether we even have an office are among higher ed’s most contentious issues.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. As Noam Chomsky, the great linguist and political activist, has put it, a higher education should never be about brainwashing, indoctrination or propagandizing.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“ Senior leadership’s role is essential: as Ehrmann explains in his important book Pursuing Quality, Access and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education , presidents or provosts must define a vision, articulate the institution’s needs and push for cross-silo collaboration.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Instead, most courses are filled with folks who already have a bachelor’s, which isn’t surprising because the courses tend to be fairly rigorous and most are designed for skills-building or for professionals dipping their toes back into higher ed.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma “America,” the headline of New York Times opinion column by David Brooks blares, “should be in the middle of a schools revolution.” In fact, the issues of equity and achievement may be even worse than his op-ed suggests.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Twitter and the right-wing and academic press are abuzz with accusations of plagiarism directed against a Princeton professor who allegedly copied and cribbed portions of his dissertation and a 2015 book. Effectively paraphrase and not simply engage in text lifting.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1934, a year after Hitler’s ascent to power, Ernst Jünger, a World War I storm trooper, published an essay rejecting liberal, bourgeois society’s embrace of security, ease, pleasure, and comfort. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Hollywood has largely abandoned one of its late 20 th , early 21 st century staples: The laugh-until-you-cry college comedy. In consequence, I believe a big part of my job is to alter their opinion by engaging and motivating them and demonstrating that history isn’t one damn fact after another.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

When we speak of education as transformative, one thing we mean is that it requires students to undergo wrenching psychological changes as they come to terms with difficult, disconcerting information that challenges their prior views and forces them to reconsider received opinions.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ethicists, so the joke goes, use logic and reasoned judgment to undercut the public’s moral intuitions and to question religion’s ethical injunctions. We need to show a due regard and a decent respect for other people’s feelings, opinions, and traditions.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The early 19th century witnessed the rise of a new life stage. College is linked to greater civic involvement and higher rates of voting. But what do undergraduates truly take away from college?

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Discussions of pedagogy, instructional design, technology integration, and assessment are no longer confined to K-12 teachers. Above all, the authors stress the importance of recognizing and valuing differences of opinion. Project-Based Learning. Be sure to address knowledge and skills gaps.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction – a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences, and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction – voice, style, language, imagery, narrative, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In a classic essay in Harper’s magazine , Elizabeth Hardwick described “The Decline of Book Reviewing.” ” Hardwick, a leading literary critic, novelist and short story writer, took it for granted in 1959 that the fate of authors and publishers depended on book reviews.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing intensive courses. Entering into a scholarly conversation.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Outrageous. Consider an opinion piece , entitled “Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust,” that just appeared in the Washington Post. Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Dishonest, disingenuous, deceitful. Skewed, slanted, shoddy.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

But as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made vividly clear, the alternative to a Pax Americana resting upon complex alliances, overseas investments and international educational, financial, health, legal and trade institutions isn’t at all clear. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.

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