AI: Friend or Foe?
…research misconduct, peer review fraud, and the reproducibility crisis, examining the effect of careless behavior and intentional fabrication in the scientific world and their profound implications for future citations and…
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Academia Must Proactively Adapt to the Rapid Integration of AI
…policy reality in mind, and university leaders must be willing to go it alone and presage risks, considering not every possibility but rather what is probable, and designing university systems…
Libertarians Are the Rare Political Tribe That Is Undecided About the Trump Administration’s Strings on Federal Funding for Universities
Scarcely a week goes by lately without news that another university has had federal funding restricted by the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal recounts that latest restrictions: “Harvard ($2.26…
The Times Misleads on Trump-Harvard Clash
The New York Times article, “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of…
Controversial PhD Project Scrubs Racially Exclusionary Wording from Website
…complaints centered on allegedly discriminatory scholarships offered by Grand Valley State University and Ithaca College. A third concerns the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities’ College of Design Initiative’s Design Justice program,…
What an Anthropologist Learned from Living Among Other Societies
…official complaint and thus the offender had to be released, but not before the judge required that the offender behave in the future, which they all sincerely agreed to do….
New Catholic Trade School Mixes Theology with Technical Skills to Meet Labor Shortages
…Gugala, vice president of enrollment, told the College Fix during an in-person interview that the school aims to maintain the original model of the university system, which integrates faith and…
How to Monitor Harvard’s Admissions
…that “every university that receives federal funding should be required to publish disaggregated data for race, sex, G.P.A., SAT scores and class rank at the back end.” Knowing the average…
Should the U.S. Close Its Graduate Law Schools?
…extend its university research claims. Anthropology and sociology are two other prominent examples that feed the university system with area studies.) Unfortunately, the law academy has found a way to…
AI-Infused Pedagogy: Learning from Blanche Bruce, the First African American to Serve a Full Term in the U.S. Senate
…predilection, which attributes human-like characteristics to the replies it formulates. *** An AI-infused pedagogy: The character chatbot Several AI guides have been published for university faculty, and they highlight the…
Deterring Foreign Influence Is a Marathon—DETERRENT Act Gets Us Started
…I write to you today just a few miles from the University of Pennsylvania, which, only two years ago, was found to have deep financial ties to China—ties that grew…
My Conversation with a ‘Silicon-Based Alien’ on Alien Life
…the journey to discover and understand is valuable. How do you think this perspective might shape future explorations or discussions in science and theology? Do you think the balance between…
Title IX and Trump 2.0: No More Radicalism Masquerading as Civil Rights
…University of Pennsylvania for its similar policies allowing men in women’s sports. The University of Pennsylvania is most infamous on this point since it was home to the transvestite swimmer,…
The War Against Western Civilization
…female supremacy and domination. How often have you heard men referred to by feminists as “toxic”? How often have you been told that “the future is female”? But perhaps the…
Educators Should Help Their Students With These Three Key Financial Concerns
As professionals in the education sector, we have a responsibility to ensure that our students receive a quality education during their time at university. Financial education is rarely part of…
When it Comes to Civics, My Peers Are Passionate—but They’re Misinformed and Easily Swayed
…shaping the country’s future, that future looks bleak. A 2023 PragerU video in which students at California State University, Northridge, were asked basic civics questions further proves my point. A…
The ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter on Race: The Sound, Fury, and Legality
…resources of the university.” In a February 18, 2025 Chronicle for Higher Education article, “Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter,” University of Texas at Austin professor Lillian Garces focused…
How Universities Are Shaping the Future of Gun Safety
…and university halls all over the United States. Since there have been several gun-related incidents that have grabbed headlines and put safety concerns on everyone’s minds, it’s maybe about time…
A Reckoning for Higher Education?
…or effectively trains future leaders is standardless … [and presupposes] that [such minority students] express some characteristic minority viewpoint”—an instance of racial stereotyping that federal and constitutional law has long…
Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order to Eliminate the Department of Education, but the Reform Effort May Be Short-Lived
…Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, and a board member of the National Association of Scholars. Dismantling the ED…
The Convenient Projection of Samuel Freedman on Kevin Roberts: Unpacking the Biases of Progressive Paternalism
…(B.A., Stanford University; J.D., Yale University): They view them as class traitors who, despite their education, reached “incorrect” populist conclusions. [RELATED: Can America Survive Its Elites?] Such figures pose a…
This Ohio Superintendent Proves Local Leadership Trumps Federal Bureaucracy
…now oversees as superintendent of the Ashland City School District (ACSD). A graduate of Ashland High School (’99), Florida Southern College (’03), and Ashland University (’09, ’14), he has spent…
The Great Un-Wokening Meets the Campus Resistance
…itself is a phantom. But don’t tell the University of California that. As the 2025 goal for carbon neutrality approached, the university “adopted new, stronger climate action goals that prioritize…
If Its Dean Got Away with Collaborative Duplication, What’s Stopping Tufts from Embracing AI-Generated ‘Scholarship’?
…university, the university “generated a ChatGPT answer, edited it at least ten times to make it more similar” to Yang’s exam answers “and used it as evidence” against Yang, even…
NIH Gives Planned Parenthood Exec $495K to Study ‘Oppression’ and Abortion
…study author Elizabeth Janiak. Janiak is a Harvard University professor whose research “explores how government and institutional policies create inequities in access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health…care,”…
‘Early America’—It’s Not Just a Matter of Words
…not exist, and where sovereign Indigenous groups could finally be turned into obedient, law-abiding citizens, became a thinkable future. This future did not materialize immediately, but the 1820s made it…
Embrace the Use of AI in Student Work
…any topic. Faculty can “go medieval” by requiring students to complete all written work in class. Some institutions, like the University of Austin, are moving in this direction. This can…
A Guide to Digging Up the ED’s Statutory Roots
…Islander-serving institutions to Code 28 Part U—University Sustainability Programs (§ 1161u). [RELATED: Linda McMahon Confirmed as Education Secretary] If the Trump administration simply shuts down the ED, all of these…
Job Profiles in Inclusive Writing: The Administration Backtracks
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 6, 2024. It was translated from French into English by the Observatory and…
A Legal Shootout Is Brewing at Berkeley Over Anti-Semitism, Trump, and the United Auto Workers Union
…fights and tensions have been bubbling on college campuses where leftwing university administrations frequently turn a blind eye to anti-Semitic student mobs intimidating and harassing Jewish students and outside authorities…