Majors. Classes. Internships. Career paths. The choices during college are many and sometimes overwhelming, but academic advising, mentorships, and a host of other higher education resources can ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Those who know me know I always encourage academics to write ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

Artificial intelligence systems that generate sustained conversations in response to user input ("generative AI") have captured headlines recently. Such composing tools offer challenges and ...

The stereotype goes that scientific information is technical, dry, and boring. After all, everyone has dragged themselves through a too-dense manuscript or fought sleep during a slow presentation at ...