Academics urge funding review after Toronto returns Amazon cash 51国产视频 returns $450,000 gift to retail giant after investigation suggests company looked to buy credibility for fight against government regulations Paul Basken 9月 8日
West Virginia president loses ‘no confidence’ vote amid cutbacks As their flagship campus draws national alarm, professors protest Gordon Gee’s move to slash positions and programmes Paul Basken 9月 7日
Even at Harvard, academic efforts to combat ChatGPT are mixed For now, premier US university sees few good options beyond in-class assignments – at least among faculty taking the threat seriously Paul Basken 9月 7日
First three-year degree programmes approved in US Truncated undergraduate degrees require between 90 and 94 credit hours instead of the standard 120 Josh Moody for Inside Higher Ed 9月 5日
Spike in support for unionisation among US graduate students Angered by pay and conditions, more than 90 per cent of student workers voting to unionise, well above 75 per cent pre-Covid average, annual analysis finds Paul Basken 9月 4日
US nurses warn of dangerous disrespect amid ‘doctor’ title row California prosecution of nurse with doctoral degree held out as sign of academia’s wider failure to treat profession seriously Paul Basken 9月 3日
Trudeau’s science funding feint angers Canadian researchers As high-profile event to deliver ‘major support’ fades, scientists already desperate for funding explode in disgust Paul Basken 9月 1日
Peter Salovey to leave Yale presidency at end of academic year As majority of Ivy League transitions after Covid, social psychologist leaves his decade-long tenure with financial strength and labour challenges Paul Basken 8月 31日
Michigan restores internet after two-day security threat shutdown Start-of-year outage affects 120,000 students, faculty and staff at major US institution with top cybersecurity programme Paul Basken 8月 31日
NIH ban on AI in grant review ‘lacks technological understanding’ Academics say largest US research funder’s policy aimed at stopping ideas theft could also apply to search engines Paul Basken 8月 30日
Supervisors and gender shape PhD patenting track record US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents Patrick Jack 8月 29日
Shootings mar start of academic year in US Faculty member shot dead at UNC, gunman chased from Florida HBCU kills three black shoppers, student dies trying wrong house Paul Basken 8月 29日