Articles and Opinions
Opinion: Invisible but Essential: The Struggles of Adjunct Faculty and the Power of Collective Action
Name Withheld at Author’s Request...
The Brainwashing of Academia: How Ideological Homogenization Undermined Higher Education
By Julian Archer, PhD, Professor of Engineering Sciences
Foreword: In this essay I explore a deeply concerning transformation within American academia—one that has quietly shifted universities away from their core missions of objective inquiry and truth-seeking. Using the metaphor of academia as society’s intellectual mind, I argue that ideological confor...
Student Guest Column: Atrophying Academia: Effects of AI Use in College
By Name Withheld at Author’s Request: a rising sophomore at a public research university.
Identity, institutional affiliation, and conflicts of interest have been verified by the editors....
Academic Freedom in 2025: Navigating Free Speech and Institutional Values
By Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Chair in Politics, Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre (MESC), University of Hull; and Fellow at The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024-2025), and President of The Association for Israel Studies
Freedom of expression is a right granted in liberal democracies to every individual. Academic freedom is narrower in scope and application. It is limited to scholars who are engaged in research and teaching in universities and similar institutions of higher education. Academic freedom includes freed...
Developing News
University of Denver Faces Decline in International Enrollment Amid National Downturn
DENVER, CO - September 2, 2025 The University of Denver is experiencing a steep decline in international student enrollment, reflecting a troubling national trend that could reshape higher education finances and research capacity....
University of Colorado Boulder AI Flags Over 1,000 Fake Scientific Journals
DENVER, CO - September 1, 2025 A team of computer scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder has harnessed artificial intelligence to tackle the rising threat of predatory scientific journals. These exploitative outlets often charge authors exorbitant fees while omitting rigorous peer review ...
“Black Lives Matter” Sign Ordered Removed from Professors’ Office Windows at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, MA - August 22, 2025 Harvard University administrators have directed two professors - Bence P. Ölveczky and Mansi Srivastava, both from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology - to remove the large block-lettered “Black Lives Matter” display from their office windows in the ...
UT System Dissolves Faculty Senates Amid Rising Control
AUSTIN, TX - August 21, 2025 The University of Texas System has formally dissolved faculty senates across its institutions effective September 1, 2025, in compliance with Texas Senate Bill 37. This move ends longstanding shared governance models and replaces them with streamlined “faculty advisory g...
The Lighter Side
Day in the life of a TA
Woke, Broke, and Tenured: A Survival Guide to Campus Politics
Congratulations, professor. You’ve made it. You have a PhD, a shared printer that jams on sight, and a title that sounds prestigious until someone asks your salary and you whisper, “...commensurate with despair.”...
The Battle of Cambridge: Trump vs. Harvard, Now With Extra Popcorn
If you thought “Godzilla vs. Kong” was an epic clash, brace yourself: former-and-maybe-future President Donald Trump has picked a fight with Harvard University, the 388-year-old grandparent of American academia. The Yard suddenly feels less like “Dead Poets Society” and more like “Money in the Bank,...
Academic Unplugged: Surviving the Hilarious Chaos of University Life
Welcome to academia - the only place where coffee is a recognized food group, sleep is a myth, and arguing passionately about footnotes is considered socially acceptable. Universities are quirky microcosms brimming with intellectual debates, caffeine overdoses, and unexplainable optimism in the face...
