Writings . . .
Chronicle of Higher Education​
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Your Job is to Stay Ahead of AI
How AI is Changing Higher Education, November 5, 2025
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The Strangling of Sonoma State
May 22, 2025
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How Business Metrics Broke the University
April 3, 2025
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How Colleges Can Kick Their Addiction to Consultants
February 13, 2025
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The Classroom is Not Your Living Room
January 28, 2025
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AI Will Play a Surveillance Role in Higher Ed (that may be a good thing)
What will Higher Ed Look Like in 10 Years Special Report, September 24, 2024
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How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed” Forum, May 25, 2023
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From Legendary Activist to Adjunct Agitator: Mario Savio’s Second Act
February 2, 2022
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What I’m Reading: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
January 21, 2019
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August 10, 2015
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Home College: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)
February 28, 2014
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August 30, 2010
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Inside Higher Ed
September 16, 2025
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May 12, 2025
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A Guide for Department Chair Merit Badges
January 15, 2025
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Holding the Line: At the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference
November 27, 2022
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What is Talent in Higher Education?
August 11, 2022
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Another Take on Musical Chairs
March 31, 2022
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February 16, 2021
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April 8, 2011
Los Angeles Review of Books
December 19, 2022
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Interconnected Lives: On Greg Sarris's "Watermelon Nights"
August 22, 2021​​
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Reflections on the Mirror Stage
April 27, 2021
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A Reactionary Renaming: Stanford and English Language Politics
October 17, 2019
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September 30, 2019
April 29, 2019
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April 3, 2019
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"The Republican Club": A Teachable Moment
November 12, 2018