Day: July 23, 2025

What If the University Didn’t Fear the Machine?

In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay, philosopher Megan Fritts offered a stark meditation on her experience serving on a university artificial intelligence (AI) committee: “If this robot can write these books better than we can,” she writes, “then what are we doing here?” The question lingers not only for humanities professors defending their […]

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These Top Science Officials Love the Copy-Paste Function

Why is it that Sethuraman Panchanathan became director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) after republishing work and passing it off as novel? And why did Victor McCrary become chair of the National Science Board (NSB)—NSF’s oversight provider—after he did the same thing? Moreover, previous NSF Director Kelvin Droegemeier took credit for students’ work, and the paper […]

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Academia: The Worst-Managed Industry in America

In the field of management science, numerous theories and practices exist. Our business schools—generally regarded as the finest in the world—have created magnificent bodies of research, case history, and most of all, the constant feedback and input from business managers about the problems they face and the ways those many problems can be solved or […]

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