AI Can Now Masquerade as Human Respondents, PNAS Study Warns, Putting Online Surveys at Risk
For a long time, online survey research has been regarded as a foundational tool of modern social science, public policy…
Dark-Horse STEM Schools Outperform the Ivy League: Unveiling the 2025 U.S. College ROI Rankings
Recently, a research team at Georgetown University released a landmark report titled “2025: Ranking 4,600 Colleges by Return on Investment.”…
Does “Winning at the Starting Line” Really Matter? Science Answers with Data from Over 30,000 Elite Performers
For decades, a belief has dominated education systems, athletic training programs, and elite selection mechanisms with little serious challenge: the…
How Do We Prove That a PhD Is “Qualified”?
How do we prove that a PhD is “qualified”? In China, the answer is increasingly tilted toward administrative authority, relying…
Why Is Ivy League Tuition So High? Skyrocketing Costs at Brown, Administrative Bloat, and the Silencing of a Whistleblower
Alex Shieh, a Chinese-American student journalist, recently testified before the House of Representatives, revealing a truth uncovered through big data…
Graduate Education: The “Last Card” for Ordinary Families Seeking to Break Through Entrenched Class Rigidity in China
A wave of educational expansion intended to break the ossification of society has, more than two decades later, revealed complex…
“Life Is Not a Track, but a Wilderness”：49-Year-Old Chinese American Female Professor Shatters the “Iron Rice Bowl” of U.S. Tenure
“Not having a job has been my lifelong dream. I never expected that this dream would actually come true. Today,…
Why Do Nobel Laureates Reluctantly Serve as University Presidents?
In China, about 30% of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering hold university…
Almost all Chinese Top Universities Are Headed by “STEM Men” —Has the Spirit of the Educator Already Vanished?
The presidents of China's top 39 national universities are almost exclusively from a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) background,…
China Is Bankrolling Global Science: The Hidden Costs of Open Access Publishing
In the first half of 2025, Nature Communications published around 5,400 papers, about 2,100 of them from Chinese authors—roughly 39%,…