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The Future of English Studies in the United Kingdom

Scholarly interest in English studies, the interdisciplinary field involving the close analysis of English language and literature and its cultural, social, historical […]

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Trump Administration Institutionalizing University Funding Obstacles

Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal […]

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Jürgen Habermas, 1929-2026: Exponent of the Public Sphere

Jürgen Habermas, a globally known social theorist whose explorations of democracy, validity and communication have gained new prominence in the current moment, […]

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Webinar: Teaching Research Design in Politics and International Relations

Are your students anxious about learning methods? How to teach research methods without resorting to a quant-qual divide? Do your students struggle […]

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Webinar: Teaching Students to Critically Examine the World

When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney denounced the so-called ‘rule-based world order’ as ‘fiction’ that was covering up the ‘asymmetries,’ no one […]

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Webinar: Teaching Concepts as Windows into International Relations 

Teaching undergraduate students to understand and engage with international relations theory through the traditional ‘isms’ can be challenging.  But what if we […]

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A Double Blow: The UK’s Higher Education Sector in Turmoil

With imminent redundancies looming across higher education institutions in the UK, we are left wondering how it went so wrong for the […]

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Colleges Strategies on AI Really Should Be Comprehensive, Not Piecemeal

What happens to a college education when a chatbot can draft an essay, summarize a reading and generate computer code in seconds? […]

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Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Elects 74 New Fellows

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 74 social scientists as fellows of the academy for the spring 2026 cohort. Fellows are […]

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Thinking Qualitatively: Making a Difference

Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) is an annual event of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology that aims to advance understanding of qualitative methods among […]

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Celebrating the National Survey of Health and Development: 1946-2026

Eighty years ago this month, the United Kingdom pioneered a novel form of social science research, the life-long cohort study. The tool […]

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Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point

The Big Thinking Summit: Inflection Point will draw on historical, linguistic, cultural, and practice-based perspectives to open new possibilities for a Canada at […]

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Promises to Academe Spotlights Importance of Screening

Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the schools that have recently placed professors on leave, […]

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Performing the University: Influencers, Content Creators, and the Crisis of Scholarship

This piece explores what comes after the university in a global higher education landscape reshaped by crisis, platform capitalism, and the erosion of public […]

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Creator of ICE Tracker Receives Activist-Scholar Award

The creator of an interactive ICE Detention Tracker will receive the 2026 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award co-sponsored by Sage and […]

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Can Accounting Impact Employee Wellbeing?

Although many may think of accounting as something abstract that happens only in spreadsheets, a new study shows that accounting can impact […]

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Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it’s so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains […]

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AI Tutors Support 16 Percent of Learning. What About the Other 84 Percent?

A parent asked me recently whether they should sign their child up for an AI tutoring service. The marketing was persuasive: personalized […]

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Universities in Transition: Reclaiming Values in a Competitive Age

The French university system has been the subject of continuous reforms for over three decades, resulting in profound structural transformations. Rooted in […]

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MPact Conference: Understanding Regional Opportunities and Partnerships to Drive American Competitiveness

The University of Maryland is hosting the Mpact Conference on Understanding Regional Opportunities and Partnerships to Drive American Competitiveness on March 25-27, […]

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Reaching Parts to Which AI Has No Access

David Canter considers informal places where people socialize, suggesting they’re an arena ChatGPT and other LLMs can’no’t replicate. As someone who lives […]

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Measuring What Matters: Why Academic Pathways Need Shared Evidence, Not Just Good Intentions 

Across higher education, academic pathway programs play a critical role in widening access to degrees, research careers, and faculty positions for students who have […]

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After the University, Where is Knowledge Headed?

Today, universities no longer function as stable centers of knowledge. Around the world, higher education is undergoing structural transformations. South Korea is […]

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Andrea Medina-Smith on Making Research Data More FAIR

It’s become cliche since Clive Humbly coined it in 2006, but data is indeed the new oil. It’s a mantra repeated by […]

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Notes on Political Repression, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University

In the second semester of my first year of full-time teaching as a “newly minted Ph.D.,” I stood before my class rehashing […]

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