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Are identity politics making students less tolerant?

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Are identity politics making students less tolerant?

Political scientist Yascha Mounk worries today's students prioritize identity and reject free speech principles.

ChatGPT on campus: How are universities handling generative AI?

ChatGPT on campus: How are universities handling generative AI?

What does education look like in a world with generative AI? In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, discusses how the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have thrown a new dynamic into his teaching practice, and shares his insights into how colleges have attempted to handle the new phenomenon.

Stanford's president on the “new normal” for higher education after COVID

Stanford's president on the “new normal” for higher education after COVID

Certain adjustments that universities across the country made because of the pandemic may very well be here to stay. A vast expansion of the use of telehealth, says Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavine, may be one of those things. And even once students can come back to campus, certain remote learning programs may be here to stay. That said, there's no replacing the in-person experience, Tessier-Lavigne stresses.