Peter Wood

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Peter Wood

If one were looking for dismal assessments of the Trump administration’s contributions to the vitality of American intellectual inquiry, the editorial eructations of Holden Thorp would likely be at the top of the list.  Thorp is the editor-in-chief of Science, the weekly journal of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This makes him one of the most influential figures in the academy and in American science as a whole.

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Peter Wood

If one were looking for dismal assessments of the Trump administration’s contributions to the vitality of American intellectual inquiry, the editorial eructations of Holden Thorp would likely be at the top of the list. Thorp is the editor-in-chief of Science, the weekly journal of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

1 month ago | wsj.com | Peter Wood

Ben Sasse made the school a model for reform. His evident successor, Santa Ono, has a bad record. When Ben Sasse unexpectedly resigned as president of the University of Florida last summer, he left behind an institution transformed. He’d dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy, confronted student radicalism, defended free speech and expanded intellectual diversity among the faculty.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Peter Wood

Are contemporary faculty members at risk from false accusations made by supporters of Governor DeSantis? Or more generally President Trump? Has a crackdown begun that instills fear into the hearts of classroom teachers? Is there an epidemic of self-censorship that has gripped the campus? Anna Peterson, professor of religion at the University of Florida, believes all this is true.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Peter Wood

Republicans in the House are considering a bill to make major changes in federal student loans for college, and President Trump is floating the idea of making colleges responsible for borrowers who fail to repay. For decades student loans and their repayment are never far the center of controversy, but it wasn’t always that way. I grew up in the era before massive student debt.