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DON’T FEAR THE FUTURE
Artificial intelligence is inevitable, so colleges and universities ought to thoughtfully prepare for it—rather than run from it.
Richard A, Greenwald, a Daily Beast columnist, is an author, academic, social critic, and professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut. His last book was entitled, Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America. He writes regularly about politics, economics, and higher education. Opinions are not institutional endorsements.
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HIGHER LEARNING
These cities unto themselves had to rework everything on the fly and, for the most part, they’ve done it.
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DOOM SPIRAL
We used to invest in higher ed as a social good. When that changed, schools started selling it as a consumer good. That’s dragging our schools, and our democracy, down.
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NOT JUST THE IVIES
Right-wing anger at ‘leftist’ institutions is no longer limited to Cambridge and Palo Alto and New Haven. It just spread to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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CRISIS TIME
If so, here’s what colleges need to do: vastly improve their mental health outreach and other forms of student support.
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SAT’S ALL, FOLKS
The virus has weakened the grip of a test created by a white supremacist who warned against “promiscuous intermingling” of the races.
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‘RACE’ TO THE BOTTOM
Both were stubborn, ignorant, and corrupt. But those weren’t the reasons both will go down in infamy.
CHANGED FOREVER?
Universities everywhere are cutting back. And they're looking at a future in which higher education is less accessible to all.
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COMEBACK?
Trump has turned the Department of Labor into the Department of Employers' Rights. But encouraging signs do exist--and Americans must be reminded of labor's vital role.
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STILL AT IT
While you were thinking about Trump’s tweets, she repealed an Obama-era rule that reined in the for-profit sector. The biggest losers? The poorest kids, of course.