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Liberal Arts Colleges to Keep Prioritizing Diversity

An open letter from presidents of institutions that belong to LACRELA, the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance.

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Why I’m Excited About ChatGPT

Here are 10 ways ChatGPT will be a boon to first-year writing instruction, Jennie Young writes.

Students are gathered in a circle, all using their cellphones and looking down at the devices.

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Students Take a Detour From Digital Overuse

When Yueying Yu and a peer established and grew the Social Media Is Bad club, they learned the power in connecting and identifying solutions to shared problems while face-to-face.

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Students, Meet the Superego

Taking seriously Freud’s concept of the moralistic inner critic can help students live less stressed, less vexed and more fulfilling lives, Mark Edmundson writes.

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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.

A viewer sits in front of an artistic work from Bayeté Ross Smith's "Our Kind of People" series, showing people in their own clothes on a white background.

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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.

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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.

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Getting ‘Unwired’

Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.