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Harvard President Corrects 2 Articles

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Harvard University president Claudine Gay has submitted corrections for two previously published articles, CNN reported.

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Using Black Students to Criticize DEI is a Cynical and Disingenuous Tactic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By now many people have read the recent article by the New York Times that critically examines the state of DEI at the University of Michigan. This article prompted other criticisms against the University of Michigan’s DEI initiatives in media outlets including the New York Post and USA Today and follows other attacks.

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Leading scientists worldwide are victims of fake articles

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Author of Retracted Superconductor Articles Leaves U of Rochester

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A researcher who claimed a blockbuster discovery of a superconductor that worked at room temperature but then saw the article retracted is no longer employed by the University of Rochester, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

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Black Students to Criticize DEI is a Cynical and Disingenuous Tactic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By now many people have read the recent article by the New York Times that critically examines the state of DEI at the University of Michigan. This article prompted other criticisms against the University of Michigan’s DEI initiatives in media outlets including the New York Post and USA Today and follows other attacks.

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Millions of Scholarly Articles Are Not Being Archived: Report

Confessions of a Community College Dean

More than two million scholarly articles are not being properly archived according to a new analysis. The DOIs are unique identifiers given to most—but not all—scholarly articles, acting as a digital fingerprint.

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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Contained in a thumb drive that had to be manually installed and updated, the offline version held a catalogue of 500,000 JSTOR article titles and accompanying short descriptions that learners could peruse. If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I