Filter & Sort
‘Beliefs Change’
A field reckons with its past involvement in conversion therapy for LGBTQ people—and somehow a graduate admissions decision gets thrown into the mix.
The Peer-Review Crisis
The peer-review system, which relies on unpaid volunteers, has long been stressed. COVID-19 has made it worse. Possible solutions include paying reviewers or limiting revise-and-resubmits. Are these Band-Aids on structural problems?
Tenure Awarded… at New York Institute of Technology, Western Illinois
New York Institute of Technology Reza Khalaj Amineh, electrical and computer engineering Houwei Cao, computer science Bryan Gibb, biological and...
‘Piedmont Is in for Some Very Tough Times’
Piedmont University provost Daniel Silber resigned abruptly this week to protest proposed budget cuts and faculty layoffs, which he called “morally wrong.”
Opinion
Room for Improvement
Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.
‘Stronger Together’
Twenty Hispanic-serving research universities are banding together to increase the number of Latino graduate students and professors at their institutions.
Opinion
Ignoring Bacow's Stance Against Grad Student Unionization
Harvard president was on "wrong side of history" in fighting the unionization of grad students.
‘An Affront to Open Discourse’
PEN America and the American Association of Colleges and Universities come out once more against so-called divisive concepts bans, saying they represent the biggest threat of all to free speech.