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Alabama and Lethal Injection Issues
Capital punishment is far from foolproof. In today’s Academic Minute, Amherst College’s Austin Sarat explains the stakes for states. Sarat...
ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now
To harness the potential and avert the risks of OpenAI’s new chat bot, academics should think a few years out, invite students into the conversation and—most of all—experiment, not panic.
New Trustees, New Hopes and Fears for City College
City College of San Francisco is welcoming three new trustees backed by the faculty union. Their supporters see them as a sign of needed change. The ousted incumbents say their replacements will imperil the college’s future.
JPMorgan Accuses Frank Financial Aid of Faking Customers
JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. multinational investment bank, is suing the college planning platform Frank Financial Aid, which it acquired in...
Utah Receives $50 Million Gift for College of Engineering
The University of Utah College of Engineering will receive $50 million and a new name, honoring benefactor John Price, a...
Man Claims 6 Medical Schools Illegally Considered Race, Gender
A white man filed a suit against six Texas medical schools Tuesday, charging them with illegally considering issues of race...
Alabama and Lethal Injection Issues: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, explains...
Survey Finds Recent Grads Emotionally Unprepared for Work
Nearly 40 percent of recent graduates believe their college or university did an inadequate job of preparing them for “the...