UChicago announces ‘The Problem with Whiteness’ course
The University of Chicago (UChicago) is offering a course to students titled “The Problem Of Whiteness” during the Spring 2023 semester, according to the school’s course catalog. Read more
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Professor under fire for teaching gender is a spectrum
A professor is under review for teaching her students that gender is a spectrum and that sex is not a dichotomy. Read more
What Will Happen to ‘U.S. News’ Rankings?
Some think (and many hope) that the move of law schools away from the publication will prompt undergraduate colleges to do the same. But no new challenges have emerged on undergraduate rankings … thus far. Read more
FBI director defends investigations of Chinese academics in front of university audience
Speaking at one of America’s leading public universities, FBI Director Christopher Wray offered a full-throated defense Friday of the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute academic fraud linked to China, saying that there is no “more serious, more persistent threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.” Read more
Congressional Democrats want legal review of OPMs
The lawmakers want the Education Department to go beyond what a federal watchdog recommended in reviewing 2011 guidance for online program managers. Read more
Let meat eaters drown, Oxford philosopher argues
It is “plausible” that there is a moral case for letting meat eaters drown, according to an Oxford University philosopher. Read more
Professor admits no Native American tribal affiliation after decades of claiming otherwise
Elizabeth Hoover, an associate professor of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), recently admitted that she has no tribal connections after decades of claiming otherwise. Read more
Former education secretary under Barack Obama is named SUNY chancellor
John King Jr., the former U.S. Education Secretary who served under former President Barack Obama from 2016 to 2017, was named State University of New York chancellor Monday afternoon, setting him up to lead the largest public university system in the country. Read more
‘Dear Graduate Students’
A professor of political science at IU Bloomington issued a dire warning about the job market to graduate students in his department. Was it necessary? Read more
87% of students say college is ‘too difficult’ but refuse to study more
While 87 percent of students said that college is “too difficult,” the same percentage are studying less than 10 hours per week, a new survey found. Read more
