Vanderbilt University has received a $75 million gift from NVIDIA President and CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, for its new San Francisco campus, which is slated…
Read more NVIDIA CEO Donates $75M to Vanderbilt San FranciscoHigher education has to rebuild public trust. That much is evident, and many of the ideas to address this challenge are coming out of our country’s wealthiest and…
Read more View From an RPU: What Rebuilding Trust Requires (opinion)As I have now argued in three books and countless columns and articles, I believe that we should view our work as writers through the lens of a practice:…
Read more AI Scribes in Medicine Are Short-Circuiting ThinkingJune’s jobs report did not just miss expectations; it also complicated the story economists had been telling about a labor market that might be reaccelerating into summer. Payrolls…
Read more ‘More fizzle than sparkle’: June jobs report fails to launch a July 4 firework | FortuneIn 2014, my father was diagnosed with cancer in Kenya. I was thousands of miles away, teaching at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the helplessness I felt was…
Read more Cancer Took My Parents—and Showed Me How to Teach (opinion)We have so many theories of motivation—self-efficacy, goal setting, goal orientation, expectancy-value of goal achievement and most recently self-determination—backed by many thousands of research articles and books. You…
Read more Try Specs Grading to Motivate Students (opinion)The Trump administration ended the system of regional accreditation in 2019. That change is now fueling some updates at higher ed’s top accreditors. A long-standing member is leaving…
Read more NWCCU Announces Split From C-RACLast year, after finally publishing a paper I had been working on for months, I did something I had never done before: I printed it out, added a…
Read more Go Ahead: Hang Your Paper on Your Office Door (opinion)ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A St. Petersburg City Council committee took the first steps on Thursday to potentially give voters the chance in November to approve an expansion of…
Read more St. Pete wants to expand the Maritime and Defense Technology HubSummers has said he is “deeply ashamed” of his actions and takes responsibility for continuing to communicate with Epstein. Kevin Dietsch/Staff/Getty Images Former Harvard University president Larry Summers…
Read more Larry Summers Resigns as Epstein Files Fallout Continues“I think for this generation, there’s more prestige in being really good at what you do versus being in charge of people,” said Nora Jenkins Townson, the founder…
Read more Younger workers favour expertise over leadership rolesThe Trump administration began targeting UCLA last year through research funding cuts. Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images The Justice Department sued the University of California system Tuesday, alleging…
Read more DOJ Sues UC, Alleging ‘Hostile Work Environment’ for JewsBeginning this summer, professors at Florida’s 28 public colleges must use a state curriculum framework to teach their introduction to sociology courses. Aligned with the state-sanctioned sociology textbook,…
Read more Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State CollegesEarlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to every college and university president with the goal of continuing its efforts to curb voting among…
Read more Ed Department Weaponizes FERPA to Restrict Voting (opinion)Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced this month that the Department of Defense will no longer send active-duty military for graduate-level professional military education at Harvard University. In…
Read more Severing Military’s Ties With Harvard Is a Mistake (opinion)A Tennessee state lawmaker dropped his bill to end tenure, but said, “We’ll maybe be back.” rruntsch | iStock | Getty Images Plus Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee…
Read more After Research, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End TenureJay Bhattacharya is now also acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images The National Institutes of Health director will become acting director…
Read more NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Head NSFUniversity of Pennsylvania graduate student workers and the school reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday morning to avoid a strike. The deal, which awaits ratification, includes raises and…
Read more Penn officials, graduate student workers reach tentative deal after nearly 2 years of negotiationsColorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver judge ruled Friday. The state’s prisons unconstitutionally…
Read more Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rulesAs AI spells doom for white-collar jobs, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is providing a transparent look at how his company is shrinking its workforce in real time. While…
Read more Klarna’s CEO agrees with Dario Amodei. He thinks his white-collar workforce will shrink by a third by 2030 | Fortune
