16 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

Studying AI Writing

Just as young artists learn to paint by copying masterpieces in museums, students might learn to write better by copying good writing. One researcher suggests that students ask ChatGPT to write a sample essay that meets their teacher’s assignment and grading criteria. The next step is key. If students pretend it’s their own piece and submit it, that’s cheating. They’ve also offloaded cognitive work to technology and haven’t learned anything. But the AI essay can be an effective teaching tool, in theory, if students study the arguments, organizational structure, sentence construction and vocabulary before writing a new draft in their own words. -Hechinger Report

AI Tools Fall into Two Buckets: Automation & Collaboration

AI tools can be generally divided into two main buckets: In one bucket, you’ll find automation tools that function as closed systems that do their work without oversight—ATMs and dishwashers. In the second bucket you’ll find collaboration tools, such as chain saws, word processors. Automation and collaboration are not opposites, and are frequently packaged together. Word processors automatically perform text layout and grammar checking even as they provide a blank canvas for writers to express ideas. The transmissions in our cars are fully automatic, while their safety systems collaborate with their human operators to monitor blind spots. In any given application, AI is going to automate or it’s going to collaborate, depending on how we design it and how someone chooses to use it. -David Autor and James Manyika writing in The Atlantic

AI Writing Feedback

Students would generally learn more if they wrote a first draft on their own. With some prompting, a chatbot could then provide immediate writing feedback targeted to each students’ needs. In surveys, students with AI feedback said they felt more motivated to rewrite than those who didn’t get feedback. That motivation is critical. Often students aren’t in the mood to rewrite, and without revisions, students can’t become better writers. It’s unclear how many rounds of AI feedback it would take to boost a student’s writing skills more permanently, not just help revise the essay at hand. Studies (have found) that delaying AI a bit, after some initial thinking and drafting, could be a sweet spot in learning. -Hechinger Report

The AI Motivational Issue

Students who use AI tools to complete assignments tend to do better on homework—but worse on tests. They’re getting the right answers, but they’re not learning. The findings suggest that simply believing information came from an LLM makes people learn less. It is like they think the system is smarter than them, so they stop trying. That’s a motivational issue, not just a cognitive one. AI doesn’t have to make us passive. But right now, that’s how people are using it. -Wall Street Journal

Good Friction

I’m personally excited about AI and think it can improve our lives in a lot of ways. But at the same time I’m trying to be mindful of secondary effects and unintended consequences. Sometimes the friction and inconvenience is where the good stuff happens. Gotta be very careful removing it. I’m personally trying to be mindful about keeping good friction around. -Geoffrey Litt

AI Definitions: Digital Twins

Digital Twins – Digital twin technology is about replicating something physical in a virtual environment. The twin might be a copy of our physiologies, personalities or the objects around us, such as a video avatar of a person or a statistical model of a complex phenomenon (like earth or weather). The models update automatically as new data becomes available and excels best at statistics-heavy applications. For instance, by analyzing large quantities of health data, it can provide more personalized treatments for a patient. Similar to synthetic users, digital twins is more about specific individuals than group-level descriptors. Digital twins raise serious ethical questions related to consent, misrepresentation and biases in data.

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20 Articles about AI & Writing

A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer – Hechinger Report  

GEO for PR - MuchRack 

The AI cheating panic is missing the point - The Washington Post  

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks – Nature

AI Writing Disclosures Are a Joke. Here’s How to Improve Them. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Meet the early-adopter judges using AI – MIT Tech Review

One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content – Science.org  

Students Are Using ChatGPT to Write Their Personal Essays Now – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles – 404 Media

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die – Washington Post

Springer Nature launches new tool to spot awkward, tortured phrases – Chemistry World 

The Biggest Signs That AI Wrote a Paper, According to a Professor - Gizmodo

AI is flattening language — and redistributing power – UX Design

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students. – New York Times

ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation – Scientific American

I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing – Stat Modeling

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper – New  York Times

Duke Just Introduced An Essay Question About AI—Here’s How To Tackle It - Forbes

AI Writing Disclosures Are a Joke. Here’s How to Improve Them. - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

I Tested Three AI Essay-Writing Tools, and Here’s What I Found – Life Hacker

Getting hired in the age of AI

If you can say you worked a job where you had to show resiliency and adaptability, those are things that employers are looking for. We are individuals with unique experiences, unique energy and unique resilience. That's what we're going to get hired for. – Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250825-aneesh-raman-young-people-employment-opportunities-katty-kay-interview

22 Recent Articles about AI & Teaching

Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge? - Wall Street Journal

Universities could bolster democracy by fostering students’ AI literacy – The Conversation

How Are Instructors Talking About AI in Their Syllabi? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

The AI cheating panic is missing the point - The Washington Post

An AI Tool Says It Can Predict Students’ Grades on Assignments. Instructors Are Skeptical. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI-driven private schools are popping up around the U.S., from North Carolina to Florida – Axios  

How to Use AI in Online Courses and Teach Your Students to Use It Too – Faculty Focus

The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started – The Atlantic

AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy 

These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I. – New York Times 

Faculty Latest Targets of Big Tech’s AI-ification of Higher Ed – Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems – Wired

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom - LitHub

I'm a college writing professor. How I think students should use AI this fall – Mashable  

ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers – Arstechnica

The Biggest Signs That AI Wrote a Paper, According to a Professor - Gizomodo

In California, Colleges Pay a Steep Price for Faulty AI Detectors – Undark

ChatGPT's new study mode won't give you the answers - Axios

What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong - Vox

AI Has Done Far More Harm Than Good in My Classroom - Education Week

How teachers say they're embracing AI in the classroom – ABC News

In training educators to use AI, we must not outsource the foundational work of teaching - Chalkbeat  

I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education - The Conversation

AI automation versus collaboration

"Using AI well will require knowing when to automate versus when to collaborate. This is not necessarily a binary choice, and the boundaries between human expertise and AI’s capabilities for expert judgment will continually evolve as AI’s capabilities advance. Although collaboration is not intrinsically better than automation, premature or excess automation—that is, automation that takes on entire jobs when it’s ready for only a subset of job tasks—is generally worse than collaboration." -David Autor and James Manyika writing in The Atlantic 

24 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

Peer Review Paranoia The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI Makes Research Easy. Maybe Too Easy. – Wall Street Journal

AI-generated scientific hypotheses lag human ones when put to the test – Science.org

JAMA Editors on Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review – JAMA  

AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices - Science.org

AI for Scientific Integrity: Detecting Ethical Breaches, Errors, and Misconduct in Manuscripts – Frontiers  

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks - Nature

Image fraud in nuclear medicine research – Springer

Does ChatGPT Ignore Article Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns? - Wiley

NIH to reject research applications written by AI – Beckers Hospital Review

AI-based fake papers are a new threat to academic publishing says journal editor – Times Higher Ed 

AI-Assisted Tools for Scientific Review Writing: Opportunities and Cautions. – ACS Publications 

Comparing AI-generated and human peer reviews: A study on 11 articles – Science Direct 

Evaluating the potential risks of employing large language models in peer review - Wiley

One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI content – Science.org

Artificial intelligence as author: Can scientific reviewers recognize GPT-4o-generated manuscripts? - Science Direct 

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds – New York Times 

AI can’t learn from what researchers don’t share – Research Professional News

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back.” - Nature

AI can simplify the process enormously and help publishers get ahead of the industry’s upheavals,” says publisher’s head of marketing. – Research Information

 AI Writing Disclosures Are a Joke. Here’s How to Improve Them. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Make all research data available for AI learning, scientists urge – Research Professional News

Machine learning model flags almost 10 percent of cancer research literature as being paper mill papers – Biorxiv

AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues – Taylor & Francis Online  

The DuckDuckGo AI Option

When you use ChatGPT, Claude or Llama technology within DuckDuckGo’s chatbot, the company acts as a middleman that limits what the AI companies know about you and what you’re chatting about. DuckDuckGo says that when you use its chatbot, your conversations aren’t used to train AI for DuckDuckGo or any of its partner AI companies. Your chats may be saved only anonymously for, at most, 30 days, with limited exceptions. And the AI companies don’t have access to personal information such as your device’s unique digital ID number, which could be used to assemble dossiers on your habits. -Washington Post

20 Webinars This Week about AI, Journalism & Media

Mon, Sept 8 - How to Develop a Practical AI Policy  

What: Artificial intelligence tools are becoming more accessible and widely used across the nonprofit sector. But they also introduce risks, especially for organizations handling sensitive data or working in communities already vulnerable to bias and exclusion. Most nonprofits still lack clear policies to guide their use. This session addresses that gap head-on by offering a framework nonprofits can use to build a practical, AI policy.

Who: Eric Molho, Bon Partners.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab

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Mon, Sept 8 - eLearning’s AI Tightrope: Real Stories From Those Who Walked It (and Stuck the Landing)

What: Our expert panelists will move beyond theory to share real-world cases and best practices for responsible AI adoption in eLearning. They’ll reveal candid stories of innovation, including insights from past missteps and the invaluable lessons learned, ensuring you can harness AI’s transformative potential while sidestepping its common pitfalls.

Who: L&D thought leaders from learning agencies like SAI360 and Cognota.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Industry

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Tue, Sept 9 - Investigating Big Tech harms: How journalists and civil society can use the data access mechanism in the Digital Services Act

What: How to investigate Big Tech harms related to illegal content, disinformation, violations of fundamental rights, protection of minors or health and well-being under the Digital Services Act.

Who: Oliver Marsh, Algorithm Watch and LK Seiling, Weizenbaum Institute & DSA40 Collaboratory.

When: 8:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: European Center for No-For-Profit Law, European Digital Rights & Lighthouse Reports

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Tue, Sept 9 - AI & Health

What: Conversations with prominent leaders in tech and health care about how assistive AI could shape the future of medicine.

Who: Amir Dan Rubin, CEO & Founding Manager Partner, Healthier Capital; Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Sharmila Makhija, Founding Dean & CEO, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine; Reid Conant, Senior Physician Executive, Abridge; Matt MacVey, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Children’s National Hospital.  

When: 9 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

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Tue, Sept 9 - Dream Job: Generative AI Specialist at Meta

What: How the Meta team develop world-changing technology around generative AI. The training required to work in the field of generative AI. Why employability skills like writing, speaking and working on a team are critical in the role.

Who: Freddy Kaiser, product data & strategy operations at Meta.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Rubin Education

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Tue, Sept 9 - Expanding Media Reach: Aligning Your Story to the Newsroom

What: We’ll unpack how newsrooms are adapting and what that means for stories being selected, shaped and shared across borders. We’ll explore: How evolving audience interests and political shifts are influencing which stories get covered; How international events and conflicts shape the way Canadian media connects global and local stories; How PR teams are adapting their outreach for regional and international audiences; How to support reporters with relevant and well-positioned narratives.

Who: Lisa Covens, Leger; Kate Hopwood, The Canadian Press, Chris Makuch Notified.

When: 12 noon, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Canadian Press

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Tue, Sept 9 - Finding the Money: Tips for strengthening proposals for journalism grants and fellowships

What: We pull back the curtain on how to find and position yourself to win grants and fellowships designed for journalists. We’ll also learn about an emerging platform being developed by a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow that will aggregate funding opportunities for staff and freelance journalists.

Who: Anne Godlasky, National Press Foundation President; Marina Walker Guevara, The Pulitzer Center Executive Editor; Monica Williams, Independent Journalist and Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow; Elliot C. Williams, National Press Club Journalism Institute Training Manager.

When: 12 noon, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The National Press Club, The Pulitzer Center &  the National Press Foundation

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Tue, Sept 9 - Using alerts with FOIAengine

What: Come to this session to learn about the newest feature of FOIAengine, a research and competitive intelligence database that mines federal Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to more than 40 Cabinet departments and agencies. During this one-hour session, founders John Jenkins and Randy Miller will demonstrate how to use FOIAengine to develop story ideas and conduct research into the corporate, legal and financial information buried in FOIA requests.  

Who: Randy E. Miller, FOIAengine; John A. Jenkins, FOIAengine.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free to members

Sponsor: Investigative Reporters and Editors

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Tue, Sept 9 - 7 Steps to Getting Your Business Noticed by Media: DIY Public Relations

What: Attendees will be able to: Recognize how to tell a PR story in sequence; Take a deeper dive into who they are, and what is their success story/angle they want to portray to press; Learn how to apply these steps with just a computer; Show credibility with your own booked TV segment Target Audience;

Who: Jennifer Sherlock, president of Jenna Communications, which has been the premiere agency for small businesses in the Greater Philadelphia Area for over a decade.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Small Business Development Center at Temple University

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Tue, Sept 9 - How I Got Here: Finding your path in public media

What: When and how to take on leadership roles that expand your impact beyond daily reporting. What it's like to move from network to local station leadership and how those experiences build on each other. How to recognize and pursue opportunities that align with your evolving interests and strengths

Who: Arnie Seipel, Chief Content Officer, KCRW; Sydney Roach, Reporter & Host, WPSU.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Public Media Journalists Association

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Wed, Sept 10 - How AI Role-Play Sharpens Soft Skills and Builds Team Confidence

What: We will walk through how to build and talk through an artificial intelligence role-play journey. Attendees will learn how to frame up a challenging conversation and then practice it with an AI conversation partner. 

Who: John Case, Program Delivery and Operations Director, CGS Immersive.

When: 11 am , Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Industry

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Wed, Sept 10 - AI, Coaching and the Human Edge: How Enablement Leaders Can Drive Revenue in the Age of Machines

What: Drawing from the world’s largest database of business-to-business buyer feedback, we will reveal how to combine AI-driven assessments, roleplay and buyer insights to create truly personalized, high-impact coaching for sales teams.

Who: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy Officer, Corporate Visions

When: 11:45 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Industry

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Wed, Sept 10 - 8 Ways to Grow Your Nonprofit’s Following on Social Media

What: This free 20-minute webinar will present eight ways to grow your nonprofit’s following on social media.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonprofit Tech for Good

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Wed, Sept 10 - Driving Business Impact Through AI-Powered Upskilling

What: How Schoox AI enables learning and development leaders to conduct skills gap analysis, pinpoint business impact opportunities and generate personalized learning content at scale.

Who: David Wentworth, VP, Talent Platform Evangelist, Schoox Cory Strawbridge, Director of Product Utilization, Schoox 

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Industry

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Wed, Sept 10 - How Far AI Has Come and Where It’s Headed

What: An insightful conversation with government and industry experts as they explore the current state of AI in the public sector, emerging applications, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Who: Miles Latham, Director of AI, State of Vermont; Luke Norris, Vice President of Platform Strategy & Digital Transformation, Granicus; Chris Radich, Public Sector CTO, Customer Success VP, UiPath; Anhad Singh, Founder and CEO, Styrk AI; Donnie Wendt, Author and Researcher.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: GovLoop

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Wed, Sept 10 - What journalists need to know about the First Amendment

What: We will help you understand more about how the amendment applies to newsgathering, where it protects you – and where it doesn’t.

Who: Taylor Seely of the Arizona Republic/azcentral.com; media lawyer Peter T. Limperis of the Tucson law firm of Miller, Pitt, Feldman and McAnally P.C.

When: 9:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists

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Thu, Sept 11 - Five Rules for Writing in the Sciences: Practical Tips to Write and Tell Your Story Effectively

What: This webinar is designed to help you write better scientific papers through five simple rules. With the help of an experienced editor, you'll be writing with ease, clarity, and coherence through our tips on grammar, language, style, and storytelling.  Whether you're still struggling with the complexity of the English language, you have little publishing experience, or you're already an experienced writer, you'll surely gain some new insights and practical tips through this webinar. Join us to learn key approaches for effective communication and increase your confidence in submitting research papers to English-language journals. 

Who: David Peralta David joined Wiley-VCH in 2014 as an editor for ChemMedChem, ChemistryOpen, and ChemistrySelect. Since 2017, he has been Editor-in-Chief of ChemMedChem. David actively trains researchers across the globe on various topics within science publishing and communication.

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Wiley

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Thu, Sept 11 - Engaging Students in Dialogue About AI

What: This presentation offers a framework for engaging students in dialogue about generative AI and its role in their learning. You will leave with actionable suggestions about how to become AI literate yourself and how to discuss this important topic with students.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Duke University

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Thu, Sept 11 - Speaking to sell books: How to become a professional speaker

What: You will learn how to: Take the first steps to get started as a speaker; Identify in-demand speaking topics based on your book; Locate venues where you can speak locally and nationally.

Who: Stephanie Chandler is the author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Marketing and Launch Plan and The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan. She is CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonfiction Authors Association

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Thu, Sept 11 - Storytelling with care: Trauma-informed nonprofit narratives

What: Discover how to craft trauma-informed, agency-centered narratives that honor story owners and build connections. This session equips nonprofit professionals with tools to gather and share impactful stories that inspire action, elevate fundraising efforts, and advance your mission authentically. 

Who: Maria Bryan, a nonprofit marketing and messaging strategist.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Bloomerang

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A truth about today’s AI Tools

"A truth about today’s AI tools: They’re not really information experts. They have challenges determining which source is the most authoritative and most recent. It’s fair to ask whether relying on any of these AI tools as your new Google is a good idea. In many ways, AI is best suited for complex questions that take some hunting. In the best cases, AI tools could find needles in a haystack — answers that weren’t obvious in a traditional Google search." - Washington Post

CS Grads Can't Find Jobs

A recent graduate triple-majored in computer science, math, and computational science and has completed the coursework for a computer-science Ph.D. He would prefer to work instead of finishing his degree, but he has found it almost impossible to secure a job. “We’re in an AI revolution, and I am a specialist in the kind of AI that we’re doing the revolution with, and I can’t find anything.” -The Atlantic

20 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Students

What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong - Vox 

How AI Is Changing—Not ‘Killing’—College – Inside Higher Ed

AI Makes Research Easy. Maybe Too Easy. – Wall Street Journal 

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting – The Atlantic

Students Are Using ChatGPT to Write Their Personal Essays Now – Chronicle of Higher Ed

These workers don’t fear artificial intelligence. They’re getting degrees in it. – Washington Post

Almost all the class of 2026 are using AI to do their work – The Atlantic

Duke Just Introduced An Essay Question About AI—Here’s How To Tackle It - Forbes

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems – Wired  

AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison – The Markup

I'm a college writing professor. How I think students should use AI this fall - Mashable

ChatGPT's new study mode won't give you the answers - Axios

University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers – The Conversation

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students. – New  York Times

How Are Students Really Using AI? Here’s what the data tell us. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

So long, study guides? The AI industry is going after students – NPR

At one elite college, over 80% of students now use AI – but it’s not all about outsourcing their work - The Conversation

Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms – Associated Press  

AI in education's potential privacy nightmare - Axios 

AI to the Rescue It’s an all-purpose study tool — it’s changing students’ relationships with professors & peers - Chronicle of Higher Ed