1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (513+ words) A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (177+ words) The Trump administration is proposing to remove the federal tax-exempt status of private schools that use race-based admission or diversity, equity and inclusion in certain school policies and programs The proposed regulation by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (359+ words) You’ve no doubt heard the expression, “That’s an idea so ridiculous only an academic could believe it.” It kept coming to mind as I read Professor John Staddon’s new book Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation. That individuals vary…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) The U.S. Department of Education on Friday recommended stripping the American Bar Association of its longstanding authority to accredit nearly 200 law schools across the country. According to a leak, a 500-page staff report concluded that the group is not sufficiently “separate…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (199+ words) Nathan Cofnas, the U.S. academic who raised plagiarism concerns over the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, said on Thursday he had been suspended by Belgium’s Ghent University and was under investigation for discrimination. Arday, once hailed as Cambridge’s youngest Black professor,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (127+ words) An academic who made plagiarism allegations against Professor Jason Arday before his death has been suspended by a university. Professor Arday resigned from his role at the University of Cambridge this month after he faced intense scrutiny over accusations of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (281+ words) The University of Cambridge must uphold its academic integrity in the wake of Jason Arday’s death, its chancellor has said. Lord Smith of Finsbury called for the institution to be fearless in interrogating accusations of plagiarism and suggestions of academic…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (409+ words) A Black and reportedly autistic man touted as the youngest scholar of color to serve as a chair at the University of Cambridge was accused of plagiarism before authorities say he took his own life last week. If that were…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (560+ words) Baron-Cohen went on to talk about him as “an incredibly kind and gentle and caring and generous man”. From his own perspective, he observed, “at the heart of all this was a man who was diagnosed with autism and language…...