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AI Tends to Mark Students’ Essays Higher Than Humans, Study Shows
LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways to relieve pressure on graders.
Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea
Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science.
Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’
A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administration and what it might take to save it.
In Defense of Nathan Cofnas
We must not abandon academic freedom and punish anyone for being a harsh critic, even when there are tragic results.
Faculty Quit as Texas A&M Victoria Requires Them On Campus 5 Days a Week
The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.
Court Revives Lawsuit Filed by UK Prof Who Called for War on Israel
The Absurdly Racist Notion That Elite Institutions Routinely Hire A-Minus Black Faculty
Don’t believe the hype of Black intellectual inferiority.