The initial occasion when Dr. Sarah Chen instructed her freshman composition students at Stanford to explain their research process, one student in the classroom put his hand up, and replied that he ...

D octors used to be reminded when making treatment decisions that they should, “first, do no harm.” The same maxim might be urged on would-be spokesmen for higher education. In “Universities Need a ...

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Words matter — but your hands might matter more, according to a new UBC study which found that purposeful hand gestures can make speakers appear more competent and persuasive. The UBC Sauder School of ...

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism. Jerusalem Demsas, editor of the newly launched ...

Scientist and educator Carl Sagan once said, "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to combat ...

It can be exhausting having to converse with a toxic man, but these phrases can help you protect your peace. We've all encountered them—men who are more preoccupied with winning an argument than with ...