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Does facing your own death give you a new lease on life?
When I was a one-year-old baby, my mother and my three-year-old brother Freddy and I were traveling to Bunia, a […]
February 13, 2026
Number of the week: Students speaking Chinese languages at home
Feb. 17 marks the start of the 2026 Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival. In 1858, San […]
February 13, 2026
Autism, Equity and the Faculty Hiring Process (opinion)
In the academic job market, campus visits are framed as opportunities to showcase scholarship, teaching and collegiality. In practice, however, […]
February 13, 2026
Colleges Steered Pell Students to Parent PLUS Loans, Report Finds
Students at dozens of universities who are eligible for Pell Grants also take out Parent PLUS loans in order to […]
February 13, 2026
CUNY Trains Community in Constructive Dialogue
A professor encouraged Mitchell Gregorovic, a graduate student in secondary education at Hunter College, to take a course in constructive […]
February 13, 2026
Don’t Record What You Don’t Want to Have to Watch
So the leadership of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided that it can record any professor’s […]
February 13, 2026
Faculty Moving Away From Outright Bans on AI, Study Finds
Academics are increasingly allowing artificial intelligence to be used for certain tasks rather than demanding outright bans, a study of […]
February 13, 2026
NSF Returns Fellowship Applications With Minimal Reasoning
Fellowship proposals have been returned prior to review, as the agency says the research outlined fails to meet eligibility requirements. […]
February 13, 2026
Some Unbelievable Higher Ed News
Back in December, I wrote a post titled “What Are We Even Doing Here?” in which I discussed some of […]
February 13, 2026