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Higher Education as Its Own Worst Enemy
In a wide-ranging discussion about his new book, Brian Rosenberg explains how shared governance, tenure and other practices stifle change on college campuses.
Embracing Technology to Advance Equity
A Carnegie Mellon professor argues that higher education needs to embrace technology to help break down barriers to entry for students.
University Says It Won’t Charge for Textbooks. Professors Ask How.
West Texas A&M's Faculty Senate voted no confidence in its president last spring, partly for his talk of a “textbook-free” campus. Now he's doubling down.
AI Raises Complicated Questions About Authorship
As the public awaits clarity on the legality of generative AI outputs, academics parse differences between how machines and humans borrow in creative pursuits.
How Grading Veered 'Off the Mark'
A new book by two education professors explores why assessment became so fraught and what we can do to restore its original purpose: helping students learn.
Wiley Journal Board Resigns After Monthlong Strike
Departing editors accept that there’s “no shortage of academics” to replace them as they call for “concerted action.”
Weighing Retracting an Abortion Critic’s Work, With Lawyers Involved
Frontiers in Psychology retracted a paper by Priscilla K. Coleman. The British Journal of Psychiatry declined to retract another, after which editorial board members resigned. It’s a fight over abortion research in the post-Roe era.
‘The Floating University’
In 1926, an NYU professor took 500 students on a tour around the world. Now a professor considers what they learned—and what they didn’t learn—on the voyage.