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 […]
Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively
Since its inception, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made grant payments totaling more than $90 billion. These grants have gone […]
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 […]
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 […]
