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  • AI for Me, Academic Misconduct for Thee

    By Staff Writer · October 31, 2026

    Imagine a professor asking artificial intelligence to draft a syllabus, prepare lecture slides, generate discussion questions, and develop a grading rubric. Then imagine that professor opening the first class with a warning: students who use AI to complete their assignments…

  • Title: Education Department publishes final accreditation overhaul

    By Staff Writer · October 31, 2026

    The Education Department published final accreditation regulations effective July 1, 2027, easing recognition of new accreditors and allowing colleges to change accreditors more readily. The rules also introduce expectations involving student outcomes, intellectual diversity, and legal compliance. Because recognized accreditors…

  • Teachers union and borrowers sue over public service loan forgiveness delays

    By Staff Writer · October 31, 2026

    The American Federation of Teachers and borrowers filed a proposed class action against the Education Department, alleging delays in Public Service Loan Forgiveness applications and removal of previously credited payments. The dispute concerns a program relevant to eligible university employees…

  • Departing Dartmouth provost challenges fairness of review into undisclosed AI use

    By Staff Writer · October 31, 2026

    Dartmouth’s departing provost, Santiago Schnell, disputed the fairness of the university’s AI review through his attorney in reporting updated Friday. Dartmouth announced his resignation Wednesday after a faculty committee found undisclosed AI use and failures of candor in his writing.…

  • The New Tenure Criteria

    By Staff Writer · September 10, 2026

  • The Post-Human Proof: How Autonomous Swarms Are Redefining Scientific Inquiry

    By Staff Writer · September 10, 2026

    In early September 2026, the landscape of pure mathematics and scientific inquiry encountered an unprecedented inflection point. OpenAI announced that an internal collective of approximately 10,000 autonomous artificial intelligence agents, governed by a frontier reasoning architecture and consuming upwards of…

  • Academia Is Hiring, but Not the Way It Used To

    By Staff Writer · September 10, 2026

    For generations, the academic career followed a familiar script: earn a doctorate, secure a tenure-track position, build a research program, teach students, and eventually gain the freedom and stability of tenure. That script has not disappeared, but for a growing…

  • NIH strengthens institutional accountability for hostile-work-environment investigations

    By Staff Writer · September 10, 2026

    NIH says recipient institutions must complete and document investigations into harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions tied to NIH-funded activities even after a principal investigator or senior researcher leaves. The agency may withhold approval of an award transfer and…