Expanding Our Presence Vanderbilt University is proceeding with a planned graduate campus in West Palm Beach and has launched a new $250 million phase of the fundraising campaign for the project. With...

Problems. Scholarly disciplines exist to provide new insights and accurate information for others to use. Policymakers rely on the results of research. If the research is conducted with a fixed pre-or...

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

Vanderbilt and MTSU are in the top 20 for free speech scores, according to a new survey, while Memphis and UTK fall.

YouTube video by WashU Center for the Humanities

Six WashU faculty members critiqued a report commissioned by WashU and Vanderbilt on the politicization of the humanities in front of approximately 200 in-person students, faculty, and WashU community...

Dr. Lynne Berry’s resignation from Vanderbilt University Medical Center raises questions about institutional accountability, faculty rights, and whether stated principles still carry weight.

Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier faces criticism for questioning the reality of racial bias in policing.

A Vanderbilt University employee is suing the school for alleged discrimination after the university denied insurance coverage for gender-affirming procedures.

Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...

The new toolkit for activism on AI shares best practices on technology procurement, auditing, bargaining, conducting information requests, and developing campaigns around technology demands for chapte...

More than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, could no longer count toward core degree requirements at 11 Texas A&M universities.

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

The university’s vision for higher ed just happens to align with the Trump administration’s.

Lawsuit alleges sex, disability discrimination after university refused insurance claim for facial feminization procedures

A Vanderbilt University employee is suing the school for alleged discrimination after the university denied insurance coverage for gender-affirming procedures.

The Foundry School is the flagship initiative of Pax Silica, a State Department program launched in 2025 to secure global supply chains for AI and tech manufacturing.

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson says that endorsing El-Sayed and other candidates is part of defending both higher education and democracy.

To survive, we have to appropriately value what people will pay for, our labor.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson says that endorsing El-Sayed and other candidates is part of defending both higher education and democracy.

The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.

Academic status seeking might drive some campus executives to work with the Trump Administration.