NaUKMA head defends dropping ‘language of aggressor’, despite concerns over freedom of expression Read more

A headline Jan. 24 in the New York Post trumpeted: “‘Native American’ novelist praised by GMA, NYT accused of being a ‘Pretendian.’” It tells the story of Erika Wurth, an English professor at Western Illinois University, whose claims to Native American ancestry have been meticulously debunked by activists and researchers even as the scholar maintains her claims. Read more

On his first day as president of the University of Florida, former Republican senator Ben Sasse faces a list of demands that call for him to defy Governor Ron DeSantis’s pledged reforms. Read more

Google is launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot called Bard to rival ChatGPT. Read more

Between 2011 and 2021, the percentage of people aged 25 and older who completed a bachelor’s degree or higher increased by 7.5 percentage points from 30.4% to 37.9%, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. Read more

A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota has proposed legislation codifying new responsibilities for tenured professors at two public colleges and making it easier for their presidents to fire them. Read more

The House of Delegates (HoD) of the American Bar Association (ABA) voted down a resolution that would have made LSAT testing optional. Read more

US is the ‘elephant in the room’ in a policy that seeks to attract overseas talent and money, says academic Read more

The university’s undergraduate online course offerings grew from 3 to 8 percent in recent years. But some question the scant attention the institution has paid to understanding outcomes in its massive online courses. Read more

Diversity, equity and inclusion administrators at Virginia’s public colleges and universities cost an estimated $15 million in 2020 alone, according to a new report by the Virginia Association of Scholars. Read more