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Opinion

A Certain Amount of Bravery: What It Takes to Restore Student Trust

Higher ed needs to get comfortable with the language of formation.

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Opinion

Universities Need an R&D Lab for Academic Programs

An accelerated pathway for piloting new academic programs can sit alongside—and in parallel to—traditional governance structures.

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Opinion

The Big Impact of Small Telescopes

In an era of big data and big telescopes, college observatories remain essential.

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Iowa’s Civics Center Has to Teach Thousands. It Currently Has One Professor.

State lawmakers said only the Center for Intellectual Freedom can offer required U.S. history and government courses at the University of Iowa. It may need to start hiring.

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How GOP State Lawmakers Are Reshaping General Education

Legislators are increasingly determining colleges’ core classes, underscoring how higher ed has become a political lightning rod.

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More Medical Schools, Examiners Embrace RFK Jr.’s Nutrition Push

At a news conference Monday, Kennedy insisted that the nutrition education pledges were voluntary and that there “was no coercion or pressure from my agency.”

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Iowa Undergrads Will Have to Take History Courses Picked by Civics Centers

Future undergraduates at Iowa’s three public universities must take a “comprehensive survey of all American history” course, plus a second...
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University Scraps Sexuality Textbook for Containing ‘Graphic Images’

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.