A Via Media on AI
I was working in a public space when a nearby conversation caught my attention. One student told a colleague that she would be taking several difficult classes the next semester.…
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Learning to “Code”
It was once common to suggest people who lose their blue-collar jobs should “learn to code.” This is no longer very good advice, if it ever was, since coding is…
Agentic AI Comes for Teaching
Will agentic AI let teachers spend more time teaching, or will it remove even more of the human touch from the academy? This is one of higher education’s most important…
Against AI Prose
In C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, Queen Orual writes the story of her life to indict the gods. “Being, for all these reasons, free from fear, I will write…
What Will UNC Tuition Hikes Pay For?
Tuition hikes in higher education are painful, reluctantly accepted, and justified with promises that the money will go to essential needs. If students really must pay more, an important question…
Why My AI Writing Assignment Failed
AI is here to stay, the experts say. Don’t fight it. Embrace it and give students a legitimate way to use AI in their writing. I’ve heard those claims since…
UNC’s Disability Scramble
For blind students trying to log onto university websites, things as simple as downloading a syllabus, signing up for a class, or watching a lecture can turn into headaches—especially when…
How China Corrupts Academic Research
To understand how China has corrupted academic research in the West, including in the United States, begin at the top. China is currently headed by a man, Xi Jinping, who…
How the College Essay Declared War on Critical Thinking
Every fall, I attempt to convince my yearly cohort of college-counseling students that writing is the single most important skill they will ever learn. Many of them stare at me…
“Embedding AI in the Curriculum”
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life occurred in what seemed like a blink of an eye. At every turn, some form of an AI “assistant” now offers…