Dear Alpha School: I Hope You’re Right
An open letter to the founder and principal of Alpha School
How to Break the Academic Silo Mindset - The Community Solution Education System
What’s stopping higher education from reaching its full potential? In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz sits down with Dr. Beronda Montgomery—biologist, author of Lessons from Plants, and former Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College—to unpack why silos persist in colleges and universities, and how those divisions hold institutions […]
University science in the US needs a coherent plan
The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Universities reported that graduate student enrollment in major research universities, which award half of all doctorate degrees in the United States, is down 15% compared to a year ago. And no wonder, considering the effect of recent immigration policies that deter international students and the financial uncertainties that universities are facing given the unpredictable nature of federal funding. The ability to support new doctoral students depends heavily on research grants, and any responsible administrator would be cautious about making commitments to students they can’t keep. This is discouraging to the scientific community but should be alarming to everyone.
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Our conversation with Nat Eliason
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight
Concordia Journal Summer 2023
Foundation Interface Lab
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2017, The New Press) is simply excellent. Here's an excerpt, here's Dr. McMillan Cottom's page about the book, here's … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Meet the Author: Alicia Solow-Niederman
Alicia Solow-NiedermanAssociate Professor of LawGeorge Washington University Law School
Future of universities
Inspired by bsky.app/profile/tedunderwood.com/post…
The Academy
Collection of ideas to do with academic institutions, including comments on trends, innovations and new policies, and common practices
U&A Links
Links posted to the userandagents.org community.
modular research preprint server demo with meaningful social context
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
How and When to Involve Crowds in Scientific Research - The Book
The Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science
science funding and the cherry picking problem
Agency in the Age of AI
College admissions insanity is substantially explained by this fact: The number of elite entry level jobs (e.g. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs…
Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education
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The University As We Know It Is Finished
Opinion | Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries (Published 2023)
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
Same argument was made about smartphones (“expensive, elitist, not accessible to most of the world”). Now most of the world has smartphones…
OpenBB is shutting down and going open source
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