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Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, during a tour of the Broad Institute on Dec. 5, 2025.

NIH Plans $174M for Research Replicability, Reproducibility

The National Institutes of Health’s five-year R3PEATS program comes alongside a new tool that seeks to help researchers identify connected scientific publications.

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Opinion

The Web of Legislative Control: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Substituting political for professional judgment about what constitutes a sound pedagogical approach continues to illustrate anti-intellectualism and the infantilization of higher education.

The University of Texas at Austin campus on a cloudy day.

UT Austin Cuts Women’s and Gender Studies Courses From Core Curriculum

The University of Texas at Austin will no longer count women’s, gender and sexuality courses toward core curriculum requirements, the...
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Higher Ed Groups Bash ED Proposal to Allow More Grant Terminations

The Education Department received more than 5,500 public comments on rule changes that would allow the secretary to, among many other things, ax awards simply “for convenience.”

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Foreign Interference Fears Over Cyberattacks on Academic Blogs

‘Distinctive’ targeting of an independently run blog in the U.K. suggests ‘state actors’ want to shut down debate on controversial research topics, says professor.

Students on lawn in front of Schaeffer Hall at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City in 2024.

Faculty Advisers Resign After Call for ‘Reset’ of Iowa Civics Center

Eleven members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom’s Advisory Council stepped down this week. It’s the latest birth pang for such entities, which are created by Republican lawmakers and boards at public universities.

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AAUP Urges AAU to Reject Nebraska

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking to rejoin the prestigious group of research universities after it was expelled in 2011

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Opinion

Supporting Civic Engagement Isn’t Just About Students

To fulfill Its democratic mission, higher ed must better support faculty civic engagement too.