Applicants are not supposed to use AI to write college essays. But colleges are using AI to help assess applications. At ...

You can chart 2025’s biggest and most important life sciences topics through the most read First Opinion essays of the year: ...

A teaching assistant who gave a student a 0 on an essay citing the Bible will no longer be teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

From our recent experience it is clear that the traditional liberties of speech and opinion rest on no solid foundation. At a time when the world needs above all other things the activity of generous ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. Learning to write clearly is one of the more difficult skills a person will learn through school and ...

Some estimates suggest that half of all white-collar jobs will disappear as artificial intelligence advances. How will older white-collar workers displaced in the AI revolution fare? Our recent book, ...

If you have time, take a break before editing an essay you recently wrote. It will allow you to have a ‘fresh set of eyes’ and catch mistakes you may not normally see. This is especially helpful if ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

Here are a few points we’re looking for when it comes to these Boston College-specific essay questions. Required Essay: Please discuss how you plan to achieve your short and long term career goals ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...