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For many professionals, the approach of a birthday brings a familiar tension between the desire for personal celebration and the unrelenting demands of the modern workplace. Jessi Gold, the chief wellness officer at the University of Tennessee System and an associate professor of psychiatry, argues that the refusal to work on one’s birthday is not […]
In 2022, a significant legislative milestone was reached when Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. Department of Education to begin tracking incidents of sexual violence across all institutions of higher education that receive federal student aid. The mandate was hailed by advocates as a critical step toward understanding the true scale of sexual misconduct […]
The arrival of the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings has become a predictable ritual in the world of higher education, marked by a seasonal deluge of press releases that flood the inboxes of education journalists. For many institutions, the release date is the culmination of a year’s worth of data collection, […]
The landscape of American higher education and workforce development is undergoing a fundamental shift as the long-anticipated debut of Workforce Pell finally moves from legislative theory to campus reality. Later this month, Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana will mark a historic milestone by beginning to distribute federal financial aid dollars to eligible students enrolled […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In a significant reversal of a policy intended to alleviate the academic pressures facing incoming freshmen, the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) has announced an immediate pause on its recently unveiled pass–no credit grading pilot program. The decision, coming less than two months after the […]
The program, titled Rigor, Replicability, and Reproducibility to Promote Excellence, Accuracy, and Translation in Science—or R3PEATS—represents a significant investment in the "self-correcting" nature of science. For decades, the academic and scientific reward systems have prioritized groundbreaking discoveries, often at the expense of the slower, less glamorous work required to ensure those discoveries are actually true. […]
Tufts University has announced the suspension of its landmark prison reentry program and initiated a comprehensive audit of all its prison-based educational offerings. The decision follows the arrest of a former program participant in connection with a shooting that occurred in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earlier this year. The move has sparked a debate over the balance […]
In an era defined by intensifying public scrutiny and a burgeoning crisis of confidence in elite academia, a second Ivy League institution has stepped forward with a comprehensive self-examination. Cornell University’s Committee on the Future of the American University recently released a major report that does more than just address administrative grievances; it calls for […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Just after 1 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, James DeVaney, the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan, returned to Ann Arbor from the QS Back to School Summit in New York. The transition from the high-level discussions in Manhattan to the practical applications in Michigan […]
The University of Austin, which welcomed its inaugural class of undergraduate students in the fall of 2024, was founded five years ago by a group of prominent academics and public intellectuals, including Bari Weiss, the Editor-in-Chief of The Free Press and former New York Times columnist. From its inception, the university has marketed itself as […]
