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A photo illustration of an open padlock with ones and zeros making it up and a backdrop of computer code.
A photo illustration of an open padlock with ones and zeros making it up and a backdrop of computer code.
Todd Wolfson, a white man with dark hair with some gray, sits at the right end of a table with five other people on a panel.
Todd Wolfson, a white man with dark hair with some gray, sits at the right end of a table with five other people on a panel.

AAUP Readies for Bigger Political Fight

June 15, 2026

At the first biennial since President Donald Trump retook office, faculty members strategized about how to resist increasing political interference in their work and on their campuses.

A photo illustration of several hands ripping apart a report with the Vanderbilt University logo and the title “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” on it.
A photo illustration of several hands ripping apart a report with the Vanderbilt University logo and the title “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” on it.

Cited Professors Say the Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work

June 10, 2026

The report on the state of humanities scholarship has generated a lot of debate in academic circles and received backlash from the leading anthropology association.

A side by side of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago building and Savneet Talwar, a tenured professor and chair of the art therapy department at SAIC. She is a woman with light brown skin and shoulder-length gray hair, wearing round black-framed glasses.
A side by side of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago building and Savneet Talwar, a tenured professor and chair of the art therapy department at SAIC. She is a woman with light brown skin and shoulder-length gray hair, wearing round black-framed glasses.

Professor Put on Leave for Assigning Case Study That Mentions Palestinians

June 9, 2026

The provost claims that the professor’s actions “threaten immediate harm” to students or the School of the Art Institute of Chicago community.

Auburn University campus in Auburn, Ala.
Auburn University campus in Auburn, Ala.

Auburn Board Takes Full Curricular Control, Dissolves Faculty Senate

June 5, 2026

The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.

Man in orange coat lunges toward man holding camera
Man in orange coat lunges toward man holding camera
A beagle in a cage.
A beagle in a cage.
Cover of Discovering Human Sexuality, Sixth Edition by Simon Levay
Cover of Discovering Human Sexuality, Sixth Edition by Simon Levay

University Scraps Sexuality Textbook for Containing ‘Graphic Images’

June 3, 2026

The University of Nebraska at Kearney investigated several complaints in May, including one from Gov. Jim Pillen calling a training module about empowering transgender students evidence of a “woke disease” degrading higher ed.