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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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Why AI Won’t Be Replacing Teachers Anytime Soon

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 | Published Aug 19, 2023
opinion

How Colleges Helped Model a Path Through the Pandemic

HIGHER LEARNING

These cities unto themselves had to rework everything on the fly and, for the most part, they’ve done it.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Dec 27, 2021
opinion

Selling College as an ‘Experience’ Is Destroying Higher Ed

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.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published May 17, 2021
opinion

The Right’s New Higher-Ed Target: Community Colleges

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.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Apr 03, 2021
opinion

We’re on the Cusp of a Lost COVID Generation—Do We Care?

CRISIS TIME

If so, here’s what colleges need to do: vastly improve their mental health outreach and other forms of student support.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Mar 27, 2021
opinion

Trash the SATs, a Bad Test Born Out of Bad Race ‘Science’

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.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Mar 14, 2021
opinion

Our Two Worst Presidents Were Both Total Racial Arsonists

‘RACE’ TO THE BOTTOM

Both were stubborn, ignorant, and corrupt. But those weren’t the reasons both will go down in infamy.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Jan 16, 2021

The Virus Could Kill 1,000 Colleges and Universities

CHANGED FOREVER?

Universities everywhere are cutting back. And they're looking at a future in which higher education is less accessible to all.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Apr 19, 2020
opinion

What Really Made America Great? Unions. Seriously.

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.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Sep 02, 2019
opinion

DeVos Strikes Again: It’s Party Time at For-Profit Colleges

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.

Richard A. Greenwald | Published Aug 03, 2019

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