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Under UT’s New Core Curriculum, Humanities Benefit but Faculty Are Limited

The new core will include a list of approved authors that faculty must select from to build their syllabi for certain courses, including Great Questions of Human Life and Masterworks of Literature.

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AI Helped Researchers Win NIH Grants. Will Science Suffer?

A new analysis of thousands of NSF and NIH grant applications—including some confidential rejected submissions—illuminates new patterns in generative AI’s relationship with federally funded research.

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Northwestern’s African Studies Program Loses Research Status but Will Continue

Beginning in September, Northwestern University’s 78-year-old Program of African Studies will no longer be considered a research center, a university...
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Black Academics Condemn ‘Ridicule and Vilification’ of Arday

Coverage that went beyond “legitimate questions of academic integrity” should be investigated, says group of Black leaders.

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Opinion

Plagiarism, Even if Proven, Does Not Deserve Moral Prosecution

Jason Arday, neurodivergence and what happens when academic accountability becomes public punishment.

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Opinion

What’s Worth Teaching? Say It Loud

We can make the capacities we’re implicitly teaching explicit.

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NIH Proposes Removing Peer Review Scores From Grant Applications

The National Institutes of Health has proposed changing how it evaluates grant applications in a way that would make the...
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Opinion

Have You Ever Noticed … ?

Gen ed as cultural sense making.