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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.

Reflections on the Value of an AI-Assisted Textbook

When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instructors’ time, the professor says.

New Data Offers Portrait of Self-Supported Transfer Students

Financially independent transfer applicants are more likely to be first-generation college students, and have greater financial need and more complex academic backgrounds than their peers, according to new data from the Common App.

Texas A&M Closes Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

The university has also canceled six classes and asked faculty to remove some course context. One free speech expert said Texas A&M is “staking out turf as the epicenter of higher education censorship nationwide.”

Florida Introduces ‘Sanitized’ Sociology Textbook

The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two universities have adopted it.