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Miami University Prohibits Faculty From Teaching Outside for Labor Day Action
University officials say the planned event violates the collective bargaining agreement, as well as Ohio law. Faculty say this is “untrue and a gross mischaracterization” of the teach-out, which was intended to be celebratory.
Labor Watch: New York AG Slams St. John’s Suit, Cal State Unions Keep Fighting
Also this month: Several unions are entering mediation to hopefully wrap up monthslong bargaining efforts, and Auburn University faculty begin to formalize their pushback to recent policy overhauls.
University of Pennsylvania Now Enforcing Math Prerequisites
As college students’ math skills decline worldwide, Penn is verifying students’ readiness for advanced calculus and algebra courses.
MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning
Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.
Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’
A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administration and what it might take to save it.
