3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (1108+ words) In March 2023, Jason Arday, a rising star in British academia, became a professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge. At 37, he was the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship in the university’s history. Arday’s personal…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) A Hofstra University political science professor has been trapped in a nearly one-year investigatory nightmare after a colleague reported him for racial discrimination for using the phrase “word salad.” Professor Richard Himelfarb made the remark at a Nov. 3, 2025 faculty meeting about…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (770+ words) The Trump administration’s ongoing feud with the American Bar Association has come to a head, as the Education Department threatens to strip the organization of its power to oversee law school programs across the country. Career staffers at the department…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (345+ words) A Belgian university on Thursday suspended the academic who accused the former Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism, describing the move as a “precautionary measure” while they look into his recent public statements. The academic, Nathan Cofnas, is a former…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (806+ words) I can’t stop thinking about Jason Arday. He is the British-Ghanaian professor at Cambridge University who was credibly accused of plagiarizing academic work and embellishing his life story in a storm of controversy in the past month, countered by accusations…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1201+ words) CAMBRIDGE, England — The medieval campus quads and gateways of Jesus College, where Jason Arday became the University of Cambridge’s youngest-ever Black professor, were quiet Saturday, with most students and faculty away on summer break. But the shock of Arday’s death…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) Yesterday in London, Jason Arday, the controversy-plagued British academic and author, was found dead. Made famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s more than 800-year history, Arday had been dogged by weeks of scrutiny amid accusations of plagiarism, fake…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (870+ words) LONDON — Britain’s prime minister called for reflection Saturday after a Black professor who faced accusations of plagiarism and misrepresenting his background died suddenly, days after resigning from a prestigious role at the University of Cambridge. Jason Arday, who became Cambridge’s…...