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The philosopher in “Update” is correct, and the relevant question is about budget structures. I’m a philosopher in a different…
It’s too bad that the anonymous senior academic who laments the absence of the GRE as a “useful filter” nevertheless…
At my research university (we are probably not unusual), the decision about whether the GRE is required is not up…
At Wisconsin-Madison the College of Letters and Sciences is under a surprisingly strict tenure-track hiring freeze. There is no money…
This doesn’t exactly guarantee meaningful work, let alone jobs, for most mathematicians…
Suppose that an alien spacecraft arrived at Jupiter and we started communicating in radio. The aliens appear friendly but mostly…
We noted the case of Professor Miller at the University of Bristol a couple of years ago. The appeals tribunal has now concurred with the lower tribunal’s ruling that “anti-Zionism” is protected under the UK Equality Law (see paragraphs 132 ff. in the opinion).
(Thanks to Joe Cairns for the pointer.)
I’m at a medium sized R2 with an undergraduate only program. A few years ago the Provost announced an AI…