Stephen Hartke has served as chair of the Composition department for the past 11 years, after an accomplished and varied career. He won the 2013 Best Contemporary Classical Composition Grammy for his ...

Every year, prospective college students stress over the application essay. They wonder what to write about, how they should write and whether the essay makes a difference. Local college admissions ...

There are finely woven grass mats and staggering geometric murals. From graffiti galloping horses, to metal “butterflies” on the wall, to the moving words of South Africa’s poet laureate, the public ...

Even for those who make a career out of loving books, sharing the right ones with the right people can take years of practice.

On the night of March 5, Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies co-hosted an emergency forum on what is happening to Black-studies departments ...

My ability to earn a living rests on my ability to craft a phrase, to synthesize an idea, to make readers care about people ...

Allentown sixth-graders are experimenting with an artificial-intelligence-powered program that one student called “basically a teacher online,” and educators themselves say helps them provide timely ...

You are more than one thing. Research suggests that integrating different parts of yourself can boost creativity, resilience, and psychological flexibility.

In December, as my classmates at Yale began studying for their final exams, I wondered how many of them were using ChatGPT to finish off their semesters. Probably not everyone who isn’t college age ...

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our emails and phones. Now, a new study finds biased AI suggestions ...

Mainstream pop was going maximalist by overloading its production with digital whizbangery; indie rock had risen as a rawer ...

“The person I had in mind for the book was myself as a 16-year-old,” the critic and programmer Ashley Clark says about his new book The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in ...