Texas TikTok ban ‘seriously impeding’ research Academics launch lawsuit in attempt to get restrictions relaxed to allow them to study the platform used by two-thirds of American teens By Lauren Coffey for Inside Higher Ed 18 July
US Republicans question legality of NIH grant awards In apparent attempt to persist with Covid-related campaign against Fauci, House members argue procedural flaw endangers $25 billion in medical funding By Paul Basken 16 July
Supporters must bear some blame for affirmative action’s tragic reversal The biggest step backwards over the last 50 years was supporters’ retreat from equal opportunity to a focus on ill-defined ‘diversity’, says Harvey Graff By Harvey J. Graff 16 July
Why is affirmative action OK for those with rich, college-educated parents? Race-based admissions may be banned, but legacy students and those from elite schools still enjoy huge, unfair advantages, says Aman Majmudar By Aman Majmudar 16 July
Legacy admissions face challenge after affirmative action ban Echoing conservative Supreme Court, coalition of advocacy groups formally demands end to Harvard’s admissions preferences for relatives of alumni By Paul Basken 14 July
Supreme Court notwithstanding, US universities must still collect race data The ban on race-conscious admissions does not override the need to monitor progress in equity and social mobility, says W. Carson Byrd By W. Carson Byrd 13 July
University of California scholars threaten new strike action Just months after ending largest-ever walkout among teaching staff, workers at 10-campus public system complain about unfulfilled promises and arrests By Paul Basken 12 July
AI text detectors ‘biased against non-native English speakers’ Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases By Tom Williams 11 July
Papers that fail to replicate ‘less likely to be cited’ Scholars suggest reproducibility testing might be helping to self-correct psychological research By Patrick Jack 11 July
US branch campuses in China face uncertain future Geopolitical tensions between two superpowers force institutions to rethink collaborations forged in friendlier times By Liam Knox for Inside Higher Ed 10 July
The tangled worlds of hacking and academia Yale University professor’s new book on history’s most notorious cyberattacks explores academia’s close ties to the world of hacking By Jack Grove 10 July
‘Grave concern’ over NIH’s sweeping foreign research data rules US funder wants overseas partners to share all data and lab notebooks every three months By Ben Upton 7 July
