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NSF Halts New Funding and Caps Indirect Rate Costs
The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting the NSF’s budget in half.
Why Academics Need to Slow Down
Slowing down is key to more meaningful, intentional teaching and scholarship, Uddipana Goswami writes.
European Governments Back Universities’ U.S. Recruitment Drive
A French institution has received nearly 300 applications from U.S. researchers as state funding bolsters efforts to “offer refuge” to those fleeing Trump funding cuts.
Indiana Budget Bill Contains Sweeping Higher Ed Changes
When Republicans revealed the legislation last week, new provisions requiring faculty to post syllabi and face “productivity” reviews had appeared. The bill quickly passed.
3 Laws for Curriculum Design in an AI Age
Anoshua Chaudhuri and Jennifer Trainor offer a framework for curricular decisions.
AAUP Report Backs Tenured Pro-Palestine Professor Who Was Fired
Pessimism Had a Foothold in the Humanities Before Trump
A new survey from the Humanities Indicators Project and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences shows that department chairs are worried about falling enrollments and tenure-track jobs.
Springtime at Harvard
The most powerful tool of the aspiring authoritarian is not shock, but normalcy, Brian Rosenberg writes.