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Why Are People Antiscience and What Can We Do About It? Academic Minute
Changing a person’s attitude on a subject can be tricky. In today’s Academic Minute, Simon Fraser University’s Aviva Philipp-Muller explains...
‘U.S. News’ Changes Policy on Testing
Magazine announces that it won’t punish colleges where few students submit scores; Columbia admits to providing incorrect information for past rankings.
‘Unraveling Faculty Burnout’
Author charts her way back from severe faculty burnout in new book. While the work includes individual coping strategies, it’s also a wake-up call to institutions to stop perpetuating a culture of overwork.
Who’ll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
The White House painted an incomplete economic picture of its new policy for free, immediate access to research produced with federal grants. Will publishers adapt their business models to comply, or will scholars be on the hook?
Yeshiva U Wins Gay-Rights Case, for Now
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rules that the university need not recognize an LGBTQ organization.
Opinion
Lawyers, Guns and Autonomy
A Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the regents’ authority to ban firearms on campuses is a victory that nevertheless reinforces the academy’s antidemocratic constitution, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn writes.
Michigan State President May Be Forced Out
Michigan State president Dr. Samuel Stanley has been given until tomorrow to resign or to possibly be dismissed by the...
Antiscience Sentiment and How to Combat It: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Aviva Philipp-Muller, assistant professor of marketing at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser...