To prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to write and do homework for them, many professors are returning to pre-technology assessments and having students finish essays in class.

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

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

NCR readers respond to articles about Fr. Gary Graf, a Pew study on religious disaffiliation and American impediments to Christian health care.

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