Your students are not you. The vast majority don't want to be academics. Don't treat them as academics-in-training. Treat them as humans, citizens, and whatever dream they have for themselves. https://twitter.com/acaguy/status/1198722115626766336

English, modern languages, art, theater, music majors should all be combined with communication majors under one School of Communication to better reflect our world.

Online AI education will replace any academic who only focuses on lecturing out of a textbook. Be a mentor, not a mouthpiece.

Public scholarship should be as respected and awarded as "traditional" scholarship.

Not everyone needs a college degree, but anyone who wants one should have the chance to earn it.

Interdisciplinary research should be the norm, not the outlier.

Focus on encouraging critical, creative, and conscientious participation instead of punishing based on attendance and tardiness.

Students need more than just developing literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking skills. They need creativity, empathy, empowerment skills as well, if not more so.

Students will forget things they don't care about. Measuring memorization measures nothing other than memorization techniques. Focus on application, synthesis, production. Let AI handle the trivia.

Liberal arts education must address the needs of the 21st century to survive.