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College writing assignments to prepare students for success at work

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The skill of boiling down ideas into concise, compelling communications is crucial to success in many careers and workplaces. Student pursuing careers outside academia (that is, the vast majority of students) need practice on common types of workplace writing. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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There’s No Right Way to Ungrade

Inside Higher Ed

It is not a specific approach or set of techniques so much as a mind-set, a recognition that the relationship between evaluation as it traditionally happens in school contexts and the imperatives of learning is complicated, and for many students, those things have been at odds for the bulk of their academic careers. This is healthy.

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U.S., Other Countries Issue Statement Supporting Academic Freedom

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“It is intrinsically linked to the effective enjoyment of other rights and freedoms, such as participation in public affairs, freedom of opinion and expression and the right to education, demonstrating the indivisibility of all human rights. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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A Problem From Hell

Inside Higher Ed

Problem 2: The MWF Problem Most faculty members prefer to teach two days a week, but historically those who teach on Mondays must teach three days a week. But this means that many instructors would have to teach outside their preferred sweet spot, 10 a.m. Who gets their preferred teaching days and hours?

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GPT-4 is here. But most faculty lack AI policies.

Inside Higher Ed

As the pace of artificial intelligence accelerates, administrators and faculty members continue to grapple with the disruption to teaching and learning. Close to half (44 percent) had no opinion. ” Maha Bali, professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, wrote in an email.

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In defense of languages (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I—and my colleagues—would argue that what we teach is not just the vocabulary or rules of a particular language, but the tools of intellectual humility and cultural exchange. ” Such a view of education and its purpose in the wider community crystallizes the values that USF professes to teach.

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A new era of union activism in higher ed (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

There, 48,000 postdoctoral scholars, teaching assistants and graduate student researchers walked off their jobs for nearly six weeks across the UC system’s 10 campuses over disputes involving working conditions, compensation, protections against harassment and alleged unfair labor practices. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: