Faculty Issues

While some institutions are banning the use of the new AI tool, others are leaning into its use and offering courses dedicated solely to navigating the new technology.

Frontiers in Psychology retracted a paper by Priscilla K. Coleman. The British Journal of Psychiatry declined to retract another, after which editorial board members resigned. It’s a fight over abortion research in the post-Roe era.

Numerous Indiana University employees will move to Purdue as the institutions dissolve their joint venture in Indianapolis. But many faculty members worry they’ll be left without tenure or a departmental home.

American Economic Review retracted an economics paper, it said, upon the authors’ request. But an author said it was without his consent.

Texas A&M already lost its president in the wake of a Texas Tribune article on the mishandled hiring of a Black professor. Now, the Tribune connects politics to the investigation of a current professor.