At first, it looked like a paradigm of science done right. A group of behavioral scientists had repeated the same experiments ...

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I n the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision on racial affirmative action and ongoing barriers to student-debt cancellation, state and federal policymakers are seeking new ways to reach racially ...

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The selection of Valerio Ferme as president came as a relief to many after a contentious search process marred by political ...

In a 2020 essay critiquing academic philosophy’s norms against aestheticizing or personalizing one’s writing, the philosopher ...

The former head of a now-dissolved faculty body says the administration’s actions reek of retaliation. The university says it ...

Gag rules.” Price fixing. “Anticompetitive agreements.” A new lawsuit seeks to skewer academic-publishing heavyweights, but ...

Jennifer Doyle broke an appointment with a performance artist named Adrian Howells. Howells’s artworks often consisted of ...

An unhappy department head wonders about the repercussions of quitting before the three-year appointment is up.

T his election is the most important of our lifetimes. It will define the future. Hype like that materializes every four ...

For those who’ve had enough of the top job, returning to the faculty can be energizing — and disorienting. “I’ve heard a lot ...