AI -- with the right guardrails -- can help students think through ideas, a professor writes.

Reading the classics is hard work. It teaches students to focus, think and persevere.

Humanities professors embraced activism -- it's where the grant money is -- and lost students' interest.

Harvard's faculty is considering putting a 20 percent cap on A grades.

Students who receive good grades for mediocre work tend to learn and earn less in the long run.

Black and Hispanic students are less likely to be admitted to elite colleges, more likely to attend flagship state universities.

States are dropping graduation exams to hide the failure to prepare all students for work, job training and college.

Boilermakers, pipe fitters, electricians and plumbers are more likely to be employed than four-year college graduates.

Most law and medical students are female. Men hold the edge in business and engineering.

Film students don't have the attention span to watch movies.

So many Harvard students earn A's they university may add an A+ grade to signify excellence.

"Mindfulness" degrees are popular, despite evidence it makes students calmer but less inclined to think, plan and work.

Professors are overwhelmingly liberal, and most moderate and conservative students go along.

Reading "One Big Book" over a semester won't be too hard, English professors tell college students. It's "deep reading."

When AI reads college application essays, "it doesn't get grumpy" or "have a bad day," says Virginia Tech vice provost.

Worried about AI and college costs, young workers are pursuing jobs in the skilled trades.

Even elite computer science graduates are having trouble competing with AI for jobs.

College students need internet-free spaces where they can read, write, talk, think, play and sleep.

Professors won't persuade students the humanities are relevant and practical. Tell them "all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare"

Reading excerpts in English class, but few whole books, leaves many unprepared to read "lengthy or complex texts" in college.