A Nature reader column features an anonymous academic with over two decades of engineering research experience in Latin America, who reports repeated rejection from faculty positions in North America and Europe. A colleague who served on a hiring committee told the applicant that the deciding factor was the lack of principal-investigator grants from the destination country's national funding system, despite strong scientific credentials. Experts including ecologist César Marín and MetaDocencia co-director Laura Ación respond, confirming that national funding experience often functions as an unofficial hiring criterion.
nature.com
· 2026-10-14
New data indicates that the long-running growth in college administrative staffing may be reversing. At Louisiana State University, an incoming president announced the layoff of 25 administrators, some in senior roles, redirecting the resulting savings toward faculty hiring and research.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
Anthropic announced that Accenture, through its AI division Faculty (acquired in January), will place staff inside the company to red-team models, run alignment assessments, and test safeguards. Anthropic and Accenture plan to jointly invest at least $1 billion over five years in the arrangement, part of Dario Amodei's push for third-party evaluators embedded within AI labs. Accenture shares rose 8% after hours following the news.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
A contributor writing for Entrepreneur argues that universities are structurally too slow to keep pace with AI-driven shifts in workforce skills, citing 18-month approval cycles for new degree programs and 9-to-12-month faculty hiring timelines. The piece introduces the concept of a 'university intrapreneur' — faculty, staff, administrators or students who solve problems and build solutions from within an institution before official policy or funding catches up, launching this as the first in a series on the topic.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-07
Syracuse University and other schools are launching new undergraduate majors and minors dedicated to artificial intelligence, aiming to formalize AI education into standalone degree programs. Faculty are still working out exactly what curriculum these programs should cover, even as they promote them to prospective students.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-04
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