A tidal wave of state legislation to diminish diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts intended to help recruit and retain underrepresented students in higher education has resulted in only…
Read more Republican Blitz to ‘Banish’ College DEI Efforts Fizzles in Most StatesAndrea Marquez teaches management in the business college of the University of Texas at San Antonio. She never thought of critical race theory as connected to her work…
Read more New and Proposed Laws in Florida and Texas Are Already Reshaping the College ClassroomWhen George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, in May 2020, dozens of college leaders issued carefully crafted statements decrying racism and pledging to double down…
Read more ‘More Cowardly Than Cautious’: Faculty Decry College Leaders’ Silence on DEI AttacksIn recent months, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has laid out a comprehensive vision that would place public higher education under extraordinary state control. A bill introduced this…
Read more ‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: New Bill Would Write DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Vision Into LawThe University of Wisconsin system on Monday will release a free-speech survey that was delayed last spring over political and procedural concerns. The survey, like similar ones that…
Read more A Free-Speech Survey in Wisconsin Was Delayed After a Chancellor Resigned. Now It’s Going Ahead.In the early 1960s, a Florida housewife named Jane Tarr Smith heard a frightening story about what a professor’s unbridled academic freedom could do to a student. The…
Read more What a 1960s Housewife Can Teach Us About Politics in Higher EdThe College of Saint Rose didn’t violate its own policies when it dismissed four tenured faculty members, according to a ruling Thursday by a New York appellate court.…
Read more A Rare Court Victory That Protected 4 Tenured Professors’ Jobs Just Got Reversed. Here’s Why.
