The Algorithmic Crisis: How Agentic AI Threatens the Foundations of Global Research Funding
The global research ecosystem is currently navigating a period of unprecedented volatility. For decades, the process of awarding research grants—the lifeblood of scientific innovation—has relied on a delicate balance of human expertise, peer review, and…
The Billion-Dollar Hand: Unmasking the Influence of Mega-Foundations on Higher Education
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the nation finds itself reflecting on the institutions that define its democratic character. Alexis de Tocqueville, in his seminal Democracy in America, famously lauded the American tradition of…
The Wage Reckoning: California’s Adjunct Faculty Challenge the Economic Foundations of Higher Education
A seismic shift is underway within the California Community College system, the largest higher education network in the United States. A wave of litigation, encompassing at least five separate lawsuits, has targeted the California Community Colleges…
