Navigating the New Era of College Assessment
At this challenging juncture, college faculty find themselves facing two distinct directions regarding assessment: return to 1980s practices with blue books and scantrons, or move forward with a new a
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Blog Articles
Conversational Antiquity: Redefining the Research Workflow
The ability to ground AI reasoning directly in specialized datasets ensures that researchers can inspect and verify the model’s outputs, transforming the AI from a general-purpose answer engine into a
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Designing for Deep Literacy: Addressing the Shift in Reading Habits
Simply requiring more reading is no longer an effective strategy when students lack the metacognitive tools to navigate extended academic discourse.
The Human Advantage: Why Tutors Outperform Algorithmic AI
While generative AI-powered tutors are rapidly evolving to offer instant feedback, step-by-step problem solving, and 24/7 availability, they operate within the constraints of programmed logic and patt
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Beyond the Contract: Building a Sustainable Pedagogical Identity
The recent decline in institutional faculty support has intensified the need for lecturers to adopt an anchor and sail approach—maintaining a firm foundation of core instructional competencies while r
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The Low-Hiring Paradox: Supporting Students in a Cooling Job Market
While recent graduates are searching for roles with increased determination, they are encountering a market where hiring volumes are flat and employers are increasingly prioritizing candidates with pr
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Sustaining Faculty Development in an Era of Shrinking Resources
While formal university networks are utilized by only 30.9% of faculty for support, 64% now rely on self-organized communities to navigate the challenges of the tenure track, including grant acquisiti
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Google Workspace Update: Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz
Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes.
With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create.
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Now live: The 30-video Gemini Faculty Fundamentals series
All 30 videos in the Gemini Faculty Fundamentals series are now live! Designed for higher ed faculty, this series offers bite-sized workflows showing how tools like Gemini Canvas and Gemini Notebook s
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Event Recap: Academic Integrity in the AI Age
As generative tools reshape higher education, traditional approaches to academic integrity and the take-home essay are no longer enough. In our latest Google Faculty Group event, we explored why shift
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In the News: Foundations, Not Just Shortcuts—DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AI in Education
If artificial intelligence can write the code or draft the essay, what is the value of teaching the baseline skill? At the 2026 Nobel Prize Dialogue, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis argued that fou
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Reimagining Academic Libraries as Hubs for Climate Literacy and Community Action
The role of the academic library is shifting fundamentally from a repository of scholarly literature to an active coordinator of community resilience and climate data stewardship. This transformation
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Reimagining Classroom Equity Through Student-Staff Partnerships
How can instructors who are tasked with high-volume teaching under short-term contracts genuinely foster student agency?
Beyond the Pinhead: Reimagining Tenure for Real-World Impact
A growing movement across higher education is actively pushing to expand definitions of scholarly excellence. Global accreditation bodies and national research frameworks are increasingly embedding ex
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Rethinking Help-Seeking Behaviors in Foundations Courses
A fascinating multi-year case study examined this exact disconnect within developmental math and English frameworks, revealing that while 93% of surveyed students were fully aware of campus support sy
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Breaking the Silence in Developmental Education
Many adult learners in two-year programs arrive with a history of negative academic encounters, leaving them terrified of judgment or failure. Traditional support models often assume these students ne
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Teaching the Architecture of Attention: Why Future Educators Must Map the Machine
A recent framework exploring digital awareness highlights exactly how one rapid, discovery-driven immersion can dismantle a student's passive relationship with technology.
Event Recap: Communicating Course Expectations for AI Use
Are you tired of playing catch-up with university-wide AI mandates that do not quite fit your discipline? Our latest discussion, GFG Events: Communicating Course Expectations for AI Use, tackled the m
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Event Recap: Designing Away from Cognitive Off-Loading
How do we prevent artificial intelligence from turning into an intellectual shortcut for our students? In our latest Google for Education event, "Designing Away from Cognitive Off-Loading," Dr. Eli
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Redefining the Ledger: The Push for Equity-Minded Workload Reform
The hidden economy of academic labor is gaining unprecedented visibility. A comprehensive report from the American Council on Education, drawing on data from the National Science Foundation-funded Fac
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Navigating the Collection Chasm: Curation Under Content Restrictions
A profound structural shift is occurring in how academic resources are managed, preserved, and accessed on university campuses.
Evidence over Instinct: Shifting the Paradigm on Career Readiness
The traditional, straightforward pipeline of higher education—where a student earns a credential, steps into a prescribed job, and enjoys long-term career stability—is increasingly unaligned with real
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The Tenure Tightrope: Balancing Academic Freedom with Institutional Fit
The conversation around tenure is shifting. Instead of viewing tenure as a static job benefit, a recent analysis in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work looks at it as an active culture-shaper—one t
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Event Recap: Faculty Professional Learning in the AI Age
Last night, the Google Faculty Groups kicked off a vital discussion on navigating higher education in the era of generative AI. Joining the panel were James Madison University professor Dr. Eric Carba
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Benchmarking AI Readiness: Global Policy & Guidance Workshop
The Hidden Irony of the AI Tutor
Edtech vendors are currently flooding higher education with a seductive pitch: drop an AI chatbot into your online course, and you instantly give every struggling adult learner a 24/7 personal tutor.
Developing Human-Centric Skills in an AI World
As AI tools become ubiquitous on campus, the most critical skills for students are increasingly recognized as those that remain uniquely human.
Navigating Curricular Constraints: Professional Integrity for Sessional Faculty
Recent developments at Texas Tech University highlight a growing challenge to instructional autonomy: new Course Content Guidelines that strictly prohibit content related to Sexual Orientation and Gen
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Evidence over Hunch: The Launch of the Higher Education Design Lab
A volatile economic landscape and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are changing the definition of career-ready. To address this, NYU and SUNY have officially launched the Higher Education Des
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Fewer Seats at the Table: What the New Accreditation Negotiating Committee Means for Faculty
As the Department of Education begins negotiating an overhaul of the accreditation system, a recent Inside Higher Ed analysis reveals a significant trend: the dilution of institutional voices.
