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NSF No More? When Science Funding Becomes a Political Weapon
In a move that has reverberated through American higher education, the federal government has frozen over $2.3 billion in research grants administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This decision has disrupted thousands of projects, stalled career-defining experiments, and triggered widespread alarm across the academic world....
"The Academy at a Crossroads: Free Speech, Political Interference, and the Battle for Higher Education"
Higher education in the United States is in crisis. Not just a crisis of funding, administration, or even ideological battles—though all of these are real and pressing—but a deeper existential crisis about what the university is and what it should be. In an era of heightened political polarization, campus censorship, and aggressive governmental intervention, the very mission of higher education—to pursue truth through free inquiry—hangs in the balance....
"Restoring Balance: Why Trump's Higher Education Policies Are Necessary Reforms"
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"States of Siege: State Universities Wage a Second War for Academic Independence"
Gainesville, Fla. — When Harvard’s labs fell silent last week after the White House froze $2.3 billion in federal research grants, the news dominated national headlines. It was the most dramatic skirmish yet in President Trump’s widening campaign to remake higher education by tying federal dollars to ideological demands and by investigating more than 50 universities—public and private—for alleged “race-exclusionary practices”. (NPR)...
Finding Success in an Increasingly Adjunctified World
In the early 21st century, the academic career ladder—once imagined as a sturdy staircase leading steadily toward tenure—has begun to resemble more of a climbing wall: the holds are still there, but they are scattered, and the route is rarely linear. Aspiring scholars who thrive in this new environment share three habits of mind: strategic breadth, entrepreneurial initiative, and values-driven resilience – with that in mind, here are some strategies you can use to navigate this increasingly challenging environment....