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As professors, we naturally talk a lot about teaching—and I’ve certainly benefited from public discussions at workshops and panel presentations. But we can also have more…

Early in the second Trump term, as Donald Trump was asserting a level of nearly autocratic power that his predecessors certainly did not think they possessed,…

The one week my Yale graduate Anthropology 101 class spent studying Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men felt like a glass of cool water on a…

You know those optical illusions where you look at a picture and depending on where your eyes focus, maybe you’re looking at a vase, maybe you’re…

I am a lifetime member of the American Association of University Professors. It is an organization that has done remarkable work in defending academic freedom for…

I have been denied tenure at my former R-1 institution. Twice. And after being assured yearly, in writing, that I was making appropriate or exceptional progress…

As U.S. higher education enters one of the most perilous times in its history, an internal threat makes it even more vulnerable—the ever-widening chasm between administrators…

This is Camila. She’s trying to figure out how cancer spreads across the body. David here is trying to cure H.I.V. And Rachael, she’s trying to…

As an English composition instructor, I’m prone to doomscrolling articles (written primarily by other English composition instructors) about the uses, advantages and dangers of large language…

Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of Robert F Kennedy jr. announced it would be cutting nearly $500 million…