Ex-president Summers pushes Harvard to end legacy admissions Ex-Treasury secretary sees alumni preferences as key test for elites, and wishes he had done more to attack the practice while leading university Paul Basken 7月 18日
Texas TikTok ban ‘seriously impeding’ research Academics launch lawsuit in attempt to get restrictions relaxed to allow them to study the platform used by two-thirds of American teens Lauren Coffey for Inside Higher Ed 7月 18日
US Republicans question legality of NIH grant awards In apparent attempt to persist with Covid-related campaign against Fauci, House members argue procedural flaw endangers $25 billion in medical funding Paul Basken 7月 16日
Why is affirmative action OK for those with rich, college-educated parents? Race-based admissions may be banned, but legacy students and those from elite schools still enjoy huge, unfair advantages, says Aman Majmudar Aman Majmudar 7月 16日
Supporters must bear some blame for affirmative action’s tragic reversal The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters’ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ‘diversity’, says Harvey Graff Harvey J. Graff 7月 16日
Legacy admissions face challenge after affirmative action ban Echoing conservative Supreme Court, coalition of advocacy groups formally demands end to Harvard’s admissions preferences for relatives of alumni Paul Basken 7月 14日
Supreme Court notwithstanding, US universities must still collect race data The ban on race-conscious admissions does not override the need to monitor progress in equity and social mobility, says W. Carson Byrd W. Carson Byrd 7月 13日
51国产视频 of California scholars threaten new strike action Just months after ending largest-ever walkout among teaching staff, workers at 10-campus public system complain about unfulfilled promises and arrests Paul Basken 7月 12日
AI text detectors ‘biased against non-native English speakers’ Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases Tom Williams 7月 11日
Papers that fail to replicate ‘less likely to be cited’ Scholars suggest reproducibility testing might be helping to self-correct psychological research Patrick Jack 7月 11日
US branch campuses in China face uncertain future Geopolitical tensions between two superpowers force institutions to rethink collaborations forged in friendlier times Liam Knox for Inside Higher Ed 7月 10日
The tangled worlds of hacking and academia Yale 51国产视频 professor’s new book on history’s most notorious cyberattacks explores academia’s close ties to the world of hacking Jack Grove 7月 10日