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Valuing Black Studies Requires Valuing Black People. Few Institutions Do.

Defunding or altogether eliminating Black studies will surely exacerbate racialized persistence and experiential and student outcomes inequities on predominantly white campuses.

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The NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading.

Jay Bhattacharya insists he wants to restore trust in the National Institutes of Health. Current and former agency employees say he’s doing the opposite.

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Opinion

Faculty Should Lead Way in Responding to Compact 2.0

No university should respond to Secretary McMahon’s letter without significant faculty involvement.

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MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning

Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.

U.S. ambassador to Belgium Bill White, an older white man with short white hair and a florid face, wearing a blue suit.

Arday Accuser Nathan Cofnas Says He Will Not Be Fired

Nathan Cofnas, the American postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of...
State Sen. Bill DeMora standing next to his chalked sign on the concrete, which reads, "Welcome Back, students! Go Bucks!" DeMora is a white man wearing an Ohio State polo shirt and a ball cap.

State Senator Chalks Sidewalk at Ohio State, Protesting Ban

An Ohio state senator wrote a message in chalk Wednesday on Ohio State University’s campus, protesting the chalking ban the...
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Opinion

Moral Instruction Will Not Stop Cheating

The way to stop cheating is to worry less about cheating and more about learning.

Cover of the book “How Dare You: An HBCU President’s Fight for Half a Billion Dollars Owed—and the State’s Actions to Avoid Payment” next to a headshot of the author Glenda Baskin Glover, a Black woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a blue suit and red lipstick.

The Fight for Fair Funding at One Historically Black Land-Grant University

A new book from the former president of Tennessee State University reveals her battle to regain $544 million in documented underfunding.