2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (492+ words) Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2025, colleges and universities awarded the lowest number of humanities bachelor’s degrees since 1991. Humanities…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (297+ words) New federal data shows that about 53 percent of college students have taken an online course since 2022, compared to 36 percent in 2019. For-profit and public nonprofit colleges have the biggest share of online learners. The surge in online enrollment forced by the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (160+ words) Toward a working definition. Earlier this week I mentioned that while there’s all sorts of demand for “AI literacy,” there doesn’t seem to be a shared understanding of what that means. After floating a few possibilities, I asked my wise…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (236+ words) As many colleges and universities race to infuse AI into the classroom, the University of Chicago wants to keep some foundational classes old-school. Beginning this fall semester, the university will prohibit the use of AI in its core social sciences…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (44+ words) To understand a technology, you need to know the problem it was meant to solve. What, exactly, is AI literacy in 2026? I ask because I keep seeing articles saying that employers want it, but I’d have a hard time saying…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (153+ words) If writing matters, why don’t we put sufficient resources toward teaching it? I was very encouraged to read a recent New York Times article by Dana Goldstein that asks what students “lose when they stop writing.”...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (180+ words) The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time. By Jason Godfrey and Anne Ruggles Gere Building whatever replaces CCCC will take years. Meanwhile, close to three million students will start their composition classes in…...