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Alex Byrne Wants You to Know He’s Not a ‘Smug and Condescending Dickhead’

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By Evan Goldstein
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
“Don’t make me come off as a smug dickhead,” Alex Byrne said with a wry smile. A few weeks earlier, Jonathan Weisberg, a philosopher at the University of Toronto, had taken to X to describe Byrne as almost exactly that: a “smug and condescending dickhead,” to be precise. Weisberg’s distaste for Byrne is not unique; the MIT philosopher has a knack for drawing fire, a fate familiar to those who venture onto academe’s most fraught topical minefield: sex and gender.
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Janet Napolitano Helped Kill the SAT. She’s Reconsidering.

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By Evan Goldstein
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
When the University of California Board of Regents meets later this week, they are expected to reenter a longstanding debate about the role of standardized testing in determining who gets admitted to the university system’s nine undergraduate campuses. What they decide will have implications far beyond the borders of California.
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The Ivy League Cheating Scandal No One Wants to Talk About

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By Evan Goldstein
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
Roberto Serrano has been teaching economics at Brown University for 34 years. The past year was the hardest — both tragic and dismaying. In December, a man walked into a classroom and opened fire, killing and injuring 11 students. Two of the victims were Serrano’s students. In March, he gave the midterm exam in his ECON 1170 course, and the grade distribution strongly suggested that many students had cheated by having AI solve the problems. The final exam, administered in May, erased any doubt.
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