Why is affirmative action OK for those with rich, college-educated parents? Race-based admissions may be banned, but legacy students and those from elite schools still enjoy huge, unfair advantages, says Aman Majmudar Aman Majmudar 7月 16日
Supporters must bear some blame for affirmative action’s tragic reversal The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters’ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ‘diversity’, says Harvey Graff Harvey J. Graff 7月 16日
Legacy admissions face challenge after affirmative action ban Echoing conservative Supreme Court, coalition of advocacy groups formally demands end to Harvard’s admissions preferences for relatives of alumni Paul Basken 7月 14日
Supreme Court notwithstanding, US universities must still collect race data The ban on race-conscious admissions does not override the need to monitor progress in equity and social mobility, says W. Carson Byrd W. Carson Byrd 7月 13日
University of California scholars threaten new strike action Just months after ending largest-ever walkout among teaching staff, workers at 10-campus public system complain about unfulfilled promises and arrests Paul Basken 7月 12日
AI text detectors ‘biased against non-native English speakers’ Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases Tom Williams 7月 11日
Papers that fail to replicate ‘less likely to be cited’ Scholars suggest reproducibility testing might be helping to self-correct psychological research Patrick Jack 7月 11日
US branch campuses in China face uncertain future Geopolitical tensions between two superpowers force institutions to rethink collaborations forged in friendlier times Liam Knox for Inside Higher Ed 7月 10日
The tangled worlds of hacking and academia Yale University professor’s new book on history’s most notorious cyberattacks explores academia’s close ties to the world of hacking Jack Grove 7月 10日
‘Grave concern’ over NIH’s sweeping foreign research data rules US funder wants overseas partners to share all data and lab notebooks every three months Ben Upton 7月 7日
Big data could help mitigate the affirmative action ban It isn’t perfect, but data and analytics could capture the disadvantages applicants face and the diversity they may represent, says Carlo Ratti Carlo Ratti 7月 7日
‘Holistic’ admissions may struggle to blunt Supreme Court fallout Experts raise concern that US applicants will be forced to spin ‘sob stories’ about overcoming discrimination Jack Grove 7月 5日
