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Congress Shows Resistance to Trump’s Plan to Slash Science Budgets

Congress’s proposed budgets would preserve more research spending than the president’s. It’s a rare rebuke from Republicans to the White House’s efforts to gut funding for several research support agencies.

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AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System

It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.

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Opinion

Teaching Critiques in a Vexed Political Time

Talia Dan-Cohen considers implications for teaching critiques of power and expertise in a time of wild cross-pollinations across political lines.

People marching down a street wave Palestinian flags and hold a banner saying "No US-Israel War on Iran," with photos of President Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on it.

Conservatives Denounce Professor for ‘Symbolic Strike’ Post

Republican representatives condemned a Georgetown University scholar’s alleged post on the United States’ bombing of Iran. The university’s president said the professor is being investigated and punished.

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Opinion

Why I Teach in Prison

Don C. Sawyer III reflects on what the wider world doesn’t get to see.

Columbia ‘Incorporating’ IHRA Antisemitism Definition

Columbia University’s acting president says the institution is incorporating the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into the...
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Opinion

An Education in Taxation

Tax policy belongs in the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum as a cornerstone of civic education, Andrew Leahey writes.

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Opinion

We Can’t Ban AI, but We Can Friction Fix It

Faculty can do a lot to make it harder, and less enticing, for students to use generative AI, Catherine Savini writes.