Bloom's Sixth

Instructors have raised widespread concern about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on undergraduate education. As we focus on undergraduate classes, though, we must not lose sight of the profound effect that generative AI is likely to have on graduate education. The question there, though, isn’t how or whether to integrate AI into coursework. Rather, it’s how quickly we can integrate AI into methods courses and help students learn to use AI in finding literature; identifying significant areas of potential research; merging, cleaning, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting…

A provision in the tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday has the potential to upend graduate education. The bill would force graduate students to pay taxes on tuition waivers they routinely receive as part of their appointments. That would raise the cost of graduate education substantially and could easily drive away potential students. Erin Rousseau, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimated that she…

My trips to the office of Paul Jess often seemed liked counseling sessions. I was a master’s student at KU in 1990, and I’d go to Jess’s office with a stream of problems: My students weren’t responding as well as I’d hoped, and some even seemed hostile toward me in the classroom. My thesis wasn’t going as well as I’d expected, and I didn’t know where to begin a search for doctoral programs. It all seemed so grave then (and seems so innocuous now). Jess would lean back in his office chair, fold his hands over his bulging stomach, and listen intently. Then he’d smile and nod and…