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Imagine walking into your first day of class and finding out that your beliefs have been officially condemned by the academic department offering the course.

Elizabeth Hoover admitted that she had claimed Native American heritage that she did not have, apologizing for the "hurt, harm, and broken trust" she caused.

The second article in the series 'Reinventing School.'

Artificial intelligence bots are already passing the Medical Licensing Exam and law and business school tests but, as a professor of education and former middle and high school teacher who has spent decades studying how people learn with technology, I believe it's clear that the impact of ChatGPT on our schools goes far beyond helping teachers write lesson plans and students cheat on tests.

The list was initially meant for a particular department but has gone public for its wide array of language deemed harmful.

Academic standards in general have been consistently lowered over the past several decades. That should come as no surprise, because standards for admission to colleges and universities have been lowered as well. To the extent that meritocracy is replaced by other factors, such as identity politics, the standards will continue to diminish.

Professors leading classroom discussions about reproductive rights must remain "neutral" on abortion, the University of Idaho said.

Colonialism is being debated online with various academics and writers criticizing Queen Elizabeth II and the U.K. in the wake of her death.

The methodologies and attitudes our nation's best coaches deploy may be the best way to close racial and class gaps in academic performance too.

"These findings suggest that an intervention for anti-Black racism in academic medicine is needed urgently," researchers wrote.

"She'll have to let him know by tomorrow if she's going to choose the trip or the job," the teen's parent posted on Tuesday.

A tip led officials at a Michigan school district to investigate allegations that a principal altered academic records. The results were surprising to all.

If we allow western scholarship to continue to prop up the apparatus of authoritarian regimes, we allow the classrooms that ought to be the pinnacle of our achievements become accomplices in the world's worst possible crimes.

Administrators threaten academic freedom when they advance their own social and political agendas in the name of their institutions.

"[I]t was never my intention to lead an organization that is political or even ambiguously so," said the director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center.

By claiming to be open to everything, the academy had closed its mind to the possibility of discovering, embracing and instilling the love of wisdom.

With a new school year underway, parents, teachers and children anxiously return to classrooms amidst an ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Matthew LeHew said he shares an ultrasound picture of his unborn son with students to try and convince them.

The study's author attributed changing attitudes to younger academics with increasing "intolerance."

Among the many disturbing events of 2020 has been the rising threat to academic freedom at colleges and universities.

Mississippi's state auditor is demanding a tenured university professor pay nearly $2,000 after he canceled classes to take part in a national protest against racial inequality two days in September.

About 70 percent of academic success could be explained by genetics.

A former adviser to Trump reportedly blamed his two failed Ph.D. attempts on "anti-Russian" bias.

The change in the nature of research careers is not really the fault of Google Scholar. It simply reflects the times in which we live.

In my time in college, I met lots of people of all races who were all over the spectrum in terms of high school achievements.

The list of signatories includes professors from elite colleges and at least 40 Nobel laureates.

"He's trying to gang-bang with us!"

Academics are wrong to worry that giving students more input will lead to "dumbing down."

Academics, liberal politicians and middle class professionals are the origin of the post-truth concept.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury supports push for Cambridge to switch to sustainable fuels.