Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter told students and faculty at the opening of the 2025 academic year that universities must protect free inquiry and debate. “In times of increasing polarization, the university has a duty to foster adversarial debate,” he said last September. “At a time when an individual’s feelings about climate change or vaccination seem to carry as much weight as years of research, it is all the more urgent that young people learn how to ask critical questions,” he sa...

Ghent University's rector has retaliated against the researcher who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism. It turns out the rector, Petra de Sutter, violated his own university's policy against AI plagiarism last year. https://t.co/zMyNXHKZtb

RT @nathancofnas: I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me. The decision was made by rector Petra De S…