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Kentucky Professor Calling for Global War to End Israel Removed From Teaching

The professor’s website urges nations to attack Israel to stop a genocide. His university president suggested he was “calling for the destruction of a people based on national origin.”

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Opinion

Do Regional Publics Know Their Product?

Perhaps higher education is not a product that can be endlessly innovated, Scott M. Reznick writes.

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Is the 3-Year Degree Dream Becoming a Reality?

Colleges from Utah to Indiana and Maine are on track to offer three-year degrees in the near future. But the hesitations that have long plagued the movement haven’t disappeared.

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Johns Hopkins Press Plans to License Books to Train AI

The publisher did not disclose which AI company or companies it’s partnering with, but expects any resulting revenue to be “meaningful” in advancing its mission.

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Opinion

Columbia’s Agreement: A Win for Authoritarianism

The disastrous deal between Columbia and the federal government only strengthens illiberal rule behind a façade of liberal values, Austin Sarat writes.

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Opinion

Can Intellectual Virtues Re-Energize Teaching?

Rebecca Vidra writes that she is thinking hard this summer about what it means to be an intellectually curious, humble and resilient teacher.

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College Employees in Kansas Can’t List Pronouns in Emails

Lawmakers in Topeka, like those in some other state capitals, used a budget bill to order nonfinancial changes to public higher ed. DEI was the target this time.

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Opinion

AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse

Universities’ rush to embrace AI will lead to an untenable outcome, Robert Niebuhr writes.