The Blackboard

The arrival of new gods does not coincide with clear vision.

An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word.

Albert Camus once wrote: “We must imagine Sisyphus happy.” I would rather imagine Icarus landing.

It’s a terrifying thing to graduate your children from high school, hoping they’ll be able to meet adulthood and be successful.

While students struggle, we ensure that all of our pieces of paper align properly and our electronic signatures are where they are supposed to be.

By heightening emotion, hatred deepens the personhood of both teachers and students.

Universities are peculiar institutions, and they need peculiar leaders.

My background had taught me to view the labels, the deficits, first, yet Mason was pointing me towards the person...

We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.

When the fall semester began, several classes attempted streaks. No one expected all the classes to succeed, but it seemed especially unlikely that underclassmen would. Yet they succeeded.

Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.

The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.