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Boston U Grad Worker Strike Now Longest in a Decade
With fall classes beginning about a week from now, the private institution must reach a deal soon with its student employees—or face further disruption.
In Teaching With Gen AI, Consider Sustainability
Faculty lack information about generative AI’s environmental impacts, and universities should prioritize sustainable computing, Susanne Hall writes.
A Case Against Rubrics
Rubrics are not the path to intellectual liberation, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera writes.
AAUP Faces Criticism for Reversal on Academic Boycotts
The American Association of University Professors announced Monday it had dropped its categorical opposition to the tactic. Critics say the organization has changed for the worse, but its new president isn’t backing down.
Judge Tosses Professors’ Suit Against Indiana’s ‘Intellectual Diversity’ Law
Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms
Defending a new law requiring “intellectual diversity” from professors, the Indiana attorney general echoes Florida and asserts that “curriculum of a public university is government speech.”
Lawmaker Claims Credit for Antisemitism Review at Florida Universities
State Representative Randy Fine says that after he repeatedly called the state university chancellor about a “Muslim terror textbook,” the system launched an evaluation of courses at all public universities.
Curiosity: From Forbidden Fruit to Catalyst of Progress
How and why curiosity shifted from vice to virtue—and what colleges can do to drive it.