1+ week, 5+ day ago   (287+ words) How much are we to blame for the lack of public trust in higher education? This is all to say, when the Vandy/Wash U report came out, I hoped it might kick off a much-needed conversation about the lasting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (466+ words) A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach. Jenny Kim / Inside Higher Ed One half of breaking through concerns practicalities. This is a solvable information problem,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (190+ words) Don’t believe the hype of Black intellectual inferiority. I am not a person who judges the greatness of a university by the number of student applicants it rejects or by its cumulative sum of research dollars. But I recognize that…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (124+ words) Anecdotes can be treated as evidence, but it’s crucial not to misunderstand one person’s perspectives as universal truths. Shaun Harper is University Professor and Provost Professor of Education, Business and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, where he…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (453+ words) Nathan Cofnas says he will “probably be fired” as Ghent begins disciplinary proceedings. By Seher Asaf for Times Higher Education The university has suspended Cofnas from his post as a postdoctoral researcher in its Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (386+ words) He became the youngest Black professor at Cambridge, then the center of a maelstrom of race and research ethics. Before that, he was a source, generous with his warmth and time. Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed At the time, Jason…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (341+ words) Coverage that went beyond “legitimate questions of academic integrity” should be investigated, says group of Black leaders. A group representing Black academics has called on the U.K. press regulator to examine the media coverage surrounding Jason Arday’s private life…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (580+ words) Jason Arday is dead at 41. Yet what did that discrepancy prove about the attribution of sentences in a doctoral thesis? Nothing directly. Several members of my own family are on the autism spectrum. I have sometimes wondered whether elements of…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (92+ words) I wish the vicious envy and violent despising of Black male intellectual leadership had somehow bypassed him. I did not know Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor ever hired at Cambridge University. I have never read anything he has written....