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Leading Together: Creating Community Guidelines To Promote Institutional Change
Several years ago, when I was a relatively new Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University (our first VPIS there–and maybe anywhere), I helped faculty and administrators at the Fuqua School of Business…
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Let’s Play! Podcast at PlayStory Press
My recent podcast with the indefatigible Drew Davidson (no relation–although I like to call him "Cuz") is now live on the Play…
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Faculties
The Mamdani Method
People say academe will never change. But if NYC government can, so can we. Here are 8 tactics Mayor Mamdani uses–and that…
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Faculties
Pre-Order “Faculties” Today–with 30% Discount Code
Duke University Press has made “Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times” available for pre-orders–and with a 30% off…
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Intelligent Artifice
Ambient Intelligence
One day last week, after an intense and sometimes emotional time sorting through files and papers and deciding what to keep, what…
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Appearances
FACULTIES : Fall-Winter Book Tour Schedule
We are beginning to put together the details for a book tour for Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive…
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Intelligent Artifice
Active Learning in the Age of AI
It's Not Just For the Birds What are those chirpy zebra finches saying to one another? Now we know. Thanks to the…
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Democracy in 3-D Glasses
In the stunning mural by Polish multidisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, "Make Tofu Not War" (2018), exhibited currently at the Prada Foundation in…
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AI Is Not Neutral
Pictured, Stanford Computer Scientist Yejin Choi who advocates "Small Language Models."
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Faculties
Cover Reveal!
Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times One of the most exciting moments in the life of a book…
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Series
AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some Social Media Comics Do!)
If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to…
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Series
AI Ate My Homework: Big and Small Solutions for Educators Now
I began my teaching career in what was the worst academic job market until the present moment. I was unemployed for three…
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Series
Auditing AI: A Great Book That Holds AI Accountable—And Shows How We Can Too
The Marquand House Collective, Auditing AI. MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2026. Auditing AI is the book I’ve been searching for–and I believe…
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