Lakers coach JJ Redick and his wife, Chelsea, told 11-year-old Knox & 9-year-old Kai that they'd need to make the case for ...

The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

After three talks, I've distilled the process into the key steps every speaker should follow to get ready for the stage.

AI tools are now being incorporated into how student applications are screened and analyzed, admissions directors say. It can ...

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

Adults need to set up rules for students so that it’s not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

Many students might see an English course titled Hermit Crabs and Borrowed Forms and immediately wonder what crustaceans have ...

This article examined student experiences before and after an essay writing assignment that required the use of ChatGPT within an undergraduate engineering course. Utilizing a pre–post study design, ...

This review is part of a preview of the winter 2026 issue of Academe. The issue will be released in full in February.

Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using ...

Colleges and universities collect more data on students than ever. But raw data means little without analysis. With learning analytics, educators can turn data ...