Faculty Issues

The $19 billion academic publishing industry is adopting AI-powered tools to improve the quality of peer-reviewed research and speed up production. The latter goal yields “obvious financial benefit” for publishers, one expert said.

A Pennsylvania college is launching a business degree that can be completed in three years, with the hopes of giving students the opportunity to earn their master of business administration in the fourth year.

The federal government is trying to put the entire private university into a state of receivership, Austin Sarat writes.

Discouraging and devaluing faculty participation in service undermine the public impact of universities, Cullen C. Merritt writes.

But the full extent of the slashing is still unclear as neither the Trump administration nor Columbia has shared what grants and contracts were ended.