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A Crosstown Merger in Philadelphia
Saint Joseph’s University and the struggling University of the Sciences merged on June 1. Higher ed observers expect more mergers to come as some small private institutions continue to flounder.
Opinion
The Exclusivity of Inclusive Excellence
Andrea Y. Simpson reflects on how the phrase, as interpreted at so many institutions, can undermine the goals of diversity and inclusivity, as well as limit the scope of first-rate scholarship.
‘Stronger Together’
Twenty Hispanic-serving research universities are banding together to increase the number of Latino graduate students and professors at their institutions.
New Presidents or Provosts: Aquinas College, Cleveland State CC, DePaul U, Fresno Pacific U, Lone Star College–Cyfair, Shippensburg U, State U of New York at New Paltz, Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton, U of Massachusetts Lowell
Julie Chen, vice chancellor for research and innovation at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, has been appointed chancellor there...
U of Washington Researchers Form Union
Research scientists and engineers at the University of Washington voted to form a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers...
Designing Better Human-AI Collaboration: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Jinglu Jiang, assistant research professor in the school of management at Binghamton University, explores how...
UCLA Law Releases Confidential Student Information
The University of California, Los Angeles, law school accidentally released to first-year students information about rising third-year students, including their...
Opinion
Room for Improvement
Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.