In addition to rising tuition costs, inflation of a different kind is affecting education. Most of us likely know what economic inflation is. After all, it’s been dominating the news headlines for the past year or so and broadly affecting the costs of goods and services we’ve been purchasing. But [read more...]
Teaching
Are the Humanities Dying?
2023-04-17It seems a week does not go by without reading or hearing about Humanities departments and majors shrinking or being phased out entirely at colleges and universities. Does the decline in those academic programs mean that the humanities are dying, in crisis, or already dead as some have postulated? [read more...]
Teachers: Are you using ChatGPT ethically?
2023-03-20In a previous article, I suggested how teachers could discourage students from using AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to do their schoolwork for them. Many educators think that the use of such tools constitutes cheating because students are not doing their work. But before coming down too hard on students [read more...]