Carson Blaisdell sat stunned by the survey on the desktop screen in front of him. The list of true/false questions posed to the 31-year-old were intimate: Did he…
Read more Bots Are Grabbing Students’ Personal Data When They Complete Assignments“Should have canceled football.” “Evacuation was disorganized.” “I was terrified I would not be able to leave campus and go home.” “Do not add more police.” Those were…
Read more After a Professor’s Killing, a University Asked Its Campus About Safety. Here’s What People Said.In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision last week outlawing race-conscious admissions, college administrators who work in diversity, equity, and inclusion say that their efforts to recruit…
Read more After Supreme Court Ruling, DEI Work Gets More Challenging and Crucial, Experts SayThe U.S. government reinstated access to federal financial aid for hundreds of thousands of incarcerated students over the weekend as a decades-old ban was officially lifted, opening the…
Read more Prison Education Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger. Here Are 3 Key Questions About What’s Next.The lawsuits that ultimately led to the Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision on race-conscious admissions centered on two colleges where most prospective students who apply won’t get in. At…
Read more The Supreme Court’s Admissions Ruling Mainly Affects Selective Colleges. They’re a Tiny Slice of Higher Ed.A psychologist spoke out this week about what critics see as a job offer gone awry over an ideological spat about diversity statements. Yoel Inbar, an associate professor…
Read more This Professor Criticized Diversity Statements. Did It Cost Him a Job Offer?After a shooting spree at Michigan State University last week left three students dead and five critically injured, campus leaders had some major responsibilities: help their community process…
Read more ‘Sadly, It’s a Club’: What Michigan State Leaders Learned Responding to a Mass ShootingIn late December, Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office asked Florida’s public colleges and universities to detail their spending on diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory, sending institutions into…
Read more DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.More than three months after an art-history lecturer at Hamline University showed a painting of the Prophet Muhammad in an online class, spurring controversy on her campus and…
Read more The Academic-Freedom Controversy That Won’t DieNearly 1,800 part-time faculty members who have been on strike since November 16 will return to work at the New School following the announcement on Saturday night that…
Read more After Three and a Half Weeks, New School Strike Ends With Tentative AgreementWith the release of preliminary federal data in November, a clearer picture is starting to emerge of how two years of pandemic-era operations have affected colleges’ graduation rates.…
Read more Whose Pandemic-Era Graduation Rates Beat, or Fell Below, the Average?So how much does this cost? It’s a simple question people ask all time, whether they’re shopping for a winter coat or a Camry. But as many Americans…
Read more A New Push to Make Financial-Aid Offers More TransparentThe 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.There are plenty of goodies in Ben Sasse’s new contract with the University of Florida, where the Republican senator from Nebraska is slated to start as president on…
Read more Ben Sasse’s Contract at Florida’s Flagship Has Lots of Perks. But Not Tenure.The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in two cases that challenge colleges’ consideration of race in admissions decisions — one against Harvard College, the other…
Read more As Race-Conscious Admissions Policies Go Before the Supreme Court, Here’s What 6 Experts Are Listening For
