Around 300 jobs set to go in ‘very difficult’ Sussex redundancies
Vice-chancellor says university has ‘done everything’ it can to reduce costs before cutting jobs Read more
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Vote on New York constitutional change prompts concerns about women’s sports
New York voters approved adding an “Equal Rights Amendment” to their constitution this month, which some say will force schools to allow males to compete in women’s sports. Read more
Is Grammarly AI? Notre Dame Says Yes
The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools. Read more
Why the short-term Pell offers limited yet promising results
An experimental Pell Grant awarded to students in short-term workforce training programs helped increase enrollment and completion rates, but it did not strengthen their outcomes in the job market, according to a federal report. Read more
Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI
The Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Read more
Most Oxford postgraduate scholarships ‘go to privileged students’
Diversity initiatives at the university ‘not working’, says union, as scholarships going to most advantaged students while diversity rates decline Read more
Academe’s Divorce From Reality
The politics of the academy have been defeated. Its ideas, its assumptions, its opinions and positions — as expressed in official statements, embodied in policies and practices, established in centers and offices, and espoused and taught by large and leading portions of the professoriate — have been rejected. Read more
Penn State Built a Second Law School. Now, It’s Going Back to One.
The university built a $60 million law building on its flagship campus. Now it’ll serve as a branch of a law school 80 miles away. Read more
U. Tulsa secures grant to ‘cultivate a moral vision’ in students through reading
The University of Tulsa is working to instill virtues of truth and morality in its honors students through a new grant. Read more
Is there something special about the human voice?
Artificial intelligence-powered speech synthesisers can now hold eerily realistic spoken conversations, putting on accents, whispering and even cloning the voices of others. So how can we tell them apart from the human voice? Read more
