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Synthetic Synthesis
A new AI tool promises instant expertise in your ears. Professors see potential, and risks.
A Muted Celebration
Princeton Touted a Professor’s MacArthur Award While Also Investigating Her Pro-Palestinian Advocacy
Ruha Benjamin says the university wouldn’t use the quotes she gave for an announcement about the award, so she posted them on social media.
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Not beating, joining
They shift to working with AI, not around it.
Academic Freedom
Maura Finkelstein’s actions were the subject of a just-concluded federal investigation.
A Touchy Topic
A year after Hamas’s attack on Israel, we have the first real test of the institutional-neutrality era.
Admissions Fraud
Fraud threats can be filtered out, but there are risks.
Diversity Defense
Amid widening disparities and under political siege, advocates urge administrators to start collecting data to figure out which DEI strategies do and don’t work.
Leadership & Governance
The former chair of Michigan State University’s Faculty Senate says the board violated his First Amendment rights when two trustees encouraged students to criticize him.
College Matters from The Chronicle
A feud among three professors inspired a debate over woke politics in academe.
College Access
Nobody wants to see a sequel to the devastating federal-aid crisis of 2024. But will we get one anyway?
Newly Updated
We’ve documented actions taken on dozens of campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid mounting political pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.
Changeup
For decades, the achievements of baseball’s earliest Black stars were kept out of the record books. Then some “geeks” changed the score.