Shared Governance

A spokesman for Governor Glenn Youngkin invoked concerns about “core curriculum mandates that are a thinly veiled attempt to incorporate the progressive left’s groupthink.” Two universities’ diversity education initiatives may be in peril.

Legislation that’s near passage in Arizona would create a “grade challenge department” for public universities. It could force professors to change students’ marks. 

The institution’s president has appointed Bruce Gilley—who’s argued that a “European moral revolution” ended Africa’s “endemic slave empires” and said the transgender flag symbolizes mutilating children—to teach.

Even as the debate on online courses continues, the UC move is creating concern about shared governance between faculty and university leaders. 

Criticism from the University of Arizona Faculty Senate has prompted one regent to take legal action against faculty as blame for the university’s financial crisis swirls.

The tenured professor of political science and Middle Eastern studies is barred from teaching until next fall after booking a room for an event organized by the Palestine Solidarity Committee.