Hacker News with Generative AI: Universities

A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)
Last Friday could have passed for a lovely spring day on the Connecticut campus of Wesleyan University. Students with books and laptops dotted a green hillside; flocks of admissions visitors trailed tour guides; baseball season had just begun, and practice was under way. It was almost possible to forget the grim straits of American higher education in 2025.

Education, Universities, Leadership, Courage

197 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 230 comments

University student targeted by Trump leaves the US (bbc.com)
A Cornell University graduate student who had his US visa revoked due to protest activities against Israel has chosen to leave the US rather than be deported.

Politics, Immigration, Universities, United States

13 points by tartoran 3 days ago | 0 comments

Georgetown University researcher on student visa arrested and detained by ICE (cbsnews.com)
Washington — A Georgetown University researcher was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week amid the Trump administration's crackdown on activists across college campuses, according to court records and the Department of Homeland Security, which alleged he has "close connections" to a Hamas official.

Immigration, Law Enforcement, Politics, Universities

26 points by bloomingkales 14 days ago | 0 comments

Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia (pbs.org)
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the Ivy League school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other campus policies.

Politics, Higher Education, Universities, Trump Administration

20 points by zekrioca 17 days ago | 7 comments

380M-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after college didn't pay UPS bill (nbcnews.com)
A professor filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey university claiming the school's negligence led to 380-million-year-old fossils ending up in a landfill in Nashville, Tennessee, last year.

Fossils, Lawsuits, Universities, Negligence

18 points by impish9208 17 days ago | 0 comments

Renowned US health research hub Johns Hopkins to slash 2k jobs (medicalxpress.com)
Prestigious US university Johns Hopkins said Thursday it will lay off more than 2,000 employees around the world in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funds.

Healthcare, Job Cuts, US News, Universities

12 points by bikenaga 20 days ago | 1 comments

Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism (gizmodo.com)
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

Artificial Intelligence, Free Speech, Palestine, Universities

24 points by nickthegreek 22 days ago | 3 comments

Universities are facing big cuts to research funding (apnews.com)
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

Education, Research Funding, Universities

11 points by hydrolox 26 days ago | 1 comments

US universities curtail PhD admissions amid science funding cuts (nature.com)
Some universities across the United States are reducing or halting their PhD admissions because of federal-funding uncertainties stemming from actions taken by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Science, Education, Funding, United States, Universities

11 points by rbanffy 32 days ago | 3 comments

These universities have the most retracted scientific articles (nature.com)
A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

Science, Research, Universities, Retractions

5 points by gradus_ad 37 days ago | 1 comments

U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty (wesa.fm)
Amid uncertainty about frozen research aid from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice.

Research Funding, Higher Education, Science, Universities

142 points by jslezak 40 days ago | 13 comments

How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (nytimes.com)
A proposal by the Trump administration to reduce the size of grants for institutions conducting medical research would have far-reaching effects, and not just for elite universities and the coastal states where many are located.

Medical Research, Politics, Funding, Healthcare, Universities

119 points by erickhill 47 days ago | 99 comments

National Institutes of Health cuts support to universities (arstechnica.com)
Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.

Science, Research, Government Funding, Universities

38 points by dangle1 55 days ago | 39 comments

Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum (huntnewsnu.com)
On a university level, what makes for a good computer science curriculum?

Computer Science, Education, Curriculum, Universities

162 points by nickmain 84 days ago | 185 comments

'I received a first but felt tainted': inside the university AI cheating crisis (theguardian.com)
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Cheating, Universities, Generative AI

4 points by YeGoblynQueenne 110 days ago | 1 comments

Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds (bbc.com)

Education, Language, Immigration, Universities, International Relations

40 points by impish9208 122 days ago | 97 comments

Oxford Electric Bell (wikipedia.org)
The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since.

Science, History, Experiments, Electromagnetism, Universities

8 points by thunderbong 123 days ago | 0 comments

Student rocket group shatters amateur space record (viterbischool.usc.edu)
Aftershock II, the latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record – reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.

Space Exploration, Aerospace Engineering, Student Projects, Records, Universities

281 points by wallflower 127 days ago | 233 comments

Australia's top university to halt international student admissions next year (msn.com)

Education, International Students, Australia, Universities

6 points by teleforce 142 days ago | 3 comments

Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations (nature.com)
Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as a private-sector industry and research as a public investment.

Education, UK Politics, Universities, Higher Education, Government Policy

6 points by rntn 189 days ago | 0 comments

Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor (nbcnews.com)
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.

Ethics, Healthcare, Business, Universities

22 points by Geekette 197 days ago | 14 comments

Elon Musk acquires the university formerly known as Stanford (stanforddaily.com)

Elon Musk, Universities, Acquisitions

17 points by simonpure 210 days ago | 7 comments

This is MIT and yes, we have bananas (technologyreview.com)

MIT, Universities, Technology, Humor

12 points by impish9208 219 days ago | 1 comments

Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure (washingtonpost.com)

Disinformation, Research, Universities, Politics, Media

10 points by rmason 287 days ago | 5 comments

MOOC – free courses from University of Helsinki (mooc.fi)