Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
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, […]
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 […]
After the University? Examining Ghana’s Higher Education Crisis and Transformation
Across the globe, universities are confronting an array of unprecedented challenges, including financial instability, governance issues, the evolving nature of academic work, […]
Scientists Should Keep in Mind It’s Called the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ for a Reason
People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply discover […]
What Is a University For, After Gaza?
What is a university for? Traditionally, education has long been seen as a foundation for ethical and intellectual life. Aristotle viewed learning […]
Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
SSRC Stands Up Economic Research Rescue Fund for Researchers Hurt by NSF Cuts
The non-profit Social Science Research Council is offering a lifeline to economists whose existing grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation were […]
What You Can Do As Data U.S. Taxpayers Paid For and Use Disappears
People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the […]
