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Antitrust Lawsuit Against Academic Publishers Dismissed

A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by researchers alleging that major corporate publishers colluded to control the...
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Can Embattled Women’s and Gender Studies Programs Survive?

Scholars say recent Republican-led attacks on the field are nothing new, but nonetheless alarming.

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Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to ‘Indoctrinate’ Students

Faculty members in the University of Houston’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science were asked to sign a three-page...
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U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal

Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey join Essex, Kent and Sussex in walking away from a proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher.

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Education Dept. Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data

The department announced Thursday it’s investigating Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse over alleged student privacy violations in the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement.

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Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges

Regional and community college professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions.

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Even More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files

Epstein spoke frequently with scientists, often sharing his own theories about their work.

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Opinion

Historians Must Reclaim the American Historical Association

Two recent vetoes by the association’s governing council raise the question of who defines what counts as “history.”