A newsletter offering essays on higher education strategy, governance and integrity, with recent issues on academic freedom, curricular control and the future of tenure. It argues for faculty to act outside the academy and to rethink tenure while protecting speech.
Website: https://www.whithertheuniversity.com/
A newsletter by a South African economic historian that combines archival research on the Cape Colony with commentary on economics, universities and AI. Each issue tells a story-driven, data-informed essay about South Africa's past and present.
Covers research and practical experience on reforming grading in higher education, including alternative grading, ungrading, and late-work policies. Readers get firsthand course designs, evidence reviews, and guest posts from instructors.
Investigative newsletter by Chris Brunet exposing H-1B visa hiring at universities and questioning the methods and replicability of academic marketing research. Readers get documented reporting on university filings, follow-ups on institutional responses, and detailed critiques of published studies and a stock-picking index claim.
The Stanford Review is an independent student newspaper covering Stanford University, mixing long-form interviews with academics and investigative reporting on campus groups and their outside ties. Readers get reported stories with primary-source detail, such as an interview with a finance professor and an investigation into a student club's links to an OpenAI engineer.
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