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    How Are Students Really Using AI?
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    How to Convince More Readers That Your Ideas Matter
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    Assignments That Mitigate AI Abuse
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    A 4/4 Teaching Load Becomes Law at Most of Wisconsin’s Public Universities
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    Keeping Your Institution Moving Forward in Turbulent Times
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    Why the Boundary Between High School and College Is Crumbling
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    When Students Want You to Change Their Grades
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    He Wrote a Course Syllabus. Is It Still His?

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    Book Recommendations From Your Fellow Readers
    Summer book and podcast suggestions from Teaching subscribers.
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    Academic Integrity in Large and Asynchronous Courses
    One professor wonders how to overcome barriers to authentic learning when AI is a threat.
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    On the Importance of Conversation
    Notes from a recent conference of art schools, and a recommendation for a podcast on big forces shaping our world.

    Teaching Gen Z

    They face a scary future. They tend to be risk averse, and distrustful of administrators and faculty members. Colleges that help these students feel connected — with professors, peers, and a sense of meaning — will flourish, and contribute to a thriving society.
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    Codes of Conduct
    Cheating Has Become Normal
    By Beth McMurtrie November 4, 2024
    Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.
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    Supportive Strategies
    Why Students Can’t Work on Their Own
    Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?
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    Kids These Days
    How Changes in K-12 Schooling Hampered the Preparation of College Students
    Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.