Across higher education, artificial intelligence has rapidly changed how students complete academic work. Essays, summaries, explanations, and structured problem-solving can now be generated instantly. The first concern has understandably been…
Once upon a time, there was this brave professor, who opened a word processor app to develop one of their most important tools in life; the syllabus. When we design courses,…
True Confessions from the Grading Trenches It happened on a Wednesday—the kind of Wednesday that arrives in the middle of a grading cycle and quietly steals your personality. I had been…
After attending a summer workshop on learning strategies led by Professor Andrew Cohen, I returned to my Spanish classrooms at Northwestern University with a simple question: What would happen if my…
In the late 1970s, America had a collective awakening. For decades, the food industry had flourished, offering convenience and endless variety, largely in the absence of robust public health oversight. It took…
My first semester as a faculty member taught me something I wish I had understood on day one: most of the stress did not come from teaching itself. It came…
Picture this: A colleague spends Sunday night feeding her lesson outline into an AI tool, gets back a polished set of discussion questions, and walks into class feeling prepared. When…
He was there to learn accounting, not comment on my course design. But midway through a Zoom call in the fall of 2025, one of my online adult learners paused and started…
In a world of instant content, the value of learning lives in how students think, apply, and transform understanding over time. The recent attention around tools like the now-offline Einstein, an AI agent…
Historically, higher education has been at the forefront of social change, not only in the United States but also in classrooms and cultures around the world. Considering the many challenges facing American…