By Colleen Flaherty. The Pioneer Fund was established in a 1937 with the goal of promoting "race betterment" -- as in the white race -- and it has long funded research that supports or could support a link between race and intelligence. So, in 2018, when mainstream science has debunked any such link, is the Pioneer Fund still a legitimate source of funding for an academic researcher. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Just a few years after rewriting the rules on program cuts and related faculty layoffs, the University of Wisconsin System is again seeking to limit faculty -- and even institutional -- say in academic matters. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Cornell joins the growing number of highly selective institutions whose business schools have adopted nondisclosure policies concerning grades and recruitment. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. With professional associations under pressure to do more to fight misconduct by their members, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced Saturday that its governing council had approved a fellow revocation policy. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The Montana Supreme Court sided with Montana State University in a five-year-old case brought by a student who said a professor harassed and raped her, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Emory is investigating a law professor who used the slur in a torts class about a case involving the word "Negro." More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Is having a chief diversity officer linked to significant gains in faculty diversity? Not really, says a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Two institutions grapple with how they should deal with revelations of faculty members' histories of sexual misconduct. Court orders reinstatement of one. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a decision by the National Labor Relations Board backing an administrative law judge’s conclusion that Teachers College of Columbia University violated federal labor law in refusing to provide a secretarial and clerical union with information about employment terms for nonunit employees. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Amy Olberding, the Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma and expert in Chinese ethics and civility who blogs under the pseudonym Prof. Manners, resigned from the popular Feminist Philosophers blog over the summer and shared her reasons for doing so this week on her personal blog, Department of Deviance. More...