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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy
A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that — at least 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, […]
ICE: Good People and Dirty Work
Watching recent events in Minneapolis from the comfortable distance of several thousand miles and a large ocean, my mind turned to an […]
After the University? Braiding a Path Forward
Around the world, universities are in crisis. Some argue that we’re witnessing the slow collapse of the system as we’ve known it—whether […]
Should We Expect AI to ‘Do’ Science?
Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained […]
