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Can an Academic Discipline Exhaust Itself?
Has U.S. history as an innovative field of academic research reached an endpoint? If so, where should junior scholars go from here?
Opinion
In Defense of the Morality of Citation
Giving credit where it’s due is a moral issue, Susan D. Blum writes.
New Unions Represent Over 40K Grad Students, Postdocs, Researchers
Last year, 26 new bargaining units representing over 40,000 graduate student workers, postdoctoral workers or researchers officially formed across the...
British Scholar Accused of Transphobia Wins Harassment Case
A British employment tribunal ruled Monday that the Open University didn’t properly protect one of its professors from “harassment” that...
Opinion
Plucking Plagiarism’s Low-Hanging Fruit
Tricia Bertram Gallant argues that graduate programs and journals should routinely check dissertations and articles for plagiarism.
How Many Casualties Would a Plagiarism War Produce?
If conservatives and liberals start scouring their opponents’ academic publications for stolen ideas or phrases, nobody—even plagiarism experts—knows how much grist they will find.
Washington State U Student Workers Strike, Get Deal
A union representing Washington State University student academic employees announced Wednesday—on the first day of its strike—that it had reached...
Louisiana Lawmaker Requests Info on Foreign Faculty Members
A Louisiana state legislator asked his state for information on faculty members at Louisiana public institutions who hold green cards...