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David Gelernter talks to someone at a conference. He is a white man wearing glasses with dark hair and a round face.

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences

Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

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Ohio State Professor On Leave After Tackling Documentarian

An Ohio State University spokesperson called the incident “very concerning.” Campus police are investigating.

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UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty

The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”

Hamlet's soliloquy, starting with "To be, or not to be," printed on a gold piece of paper.
Opinion

Professor Hamlet Contemplates Retirement

Such heady occasion demands a soliloquy.

A photograph of NIH director Jay Bhattacharya speaking before a Senate committee, with his hand outstretched making a point and a video stream of him in the background showing his face.

NIH Avoided Funding Cuts. But It Lacks Permanent Leaders in Top Posts.

After Trump administration terminations and other departures, the federal research funding agency has acting directors leading more than half of its 27 institutes and centers.

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‘Historically Underrepresented’ Faculty Overrepresented in Adjunct Ranks

New data shows that 40 percent of the professoriate is composed of adjuncts who work for meager wages. And compared to their peers on the tenure track, adjuncts are more likely to be Black or female.

Echoes in the Quad
Opinion

How Elite Institutions Aided the Red Scare Attack on Academic Freedom

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

Opinion

We Must Teach Young Americans That Associating Black People With Apes Is Racist

Racial illiteracy about this and a range of other topics is guaranteed to worsen as books are banned in our nation’s K–12 schools.