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The South Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is adorned with banners on a beautiful spring day.

UNC Settles With Trump Admin to Resolve Civil Rights Investigations

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill agreed not to use or analyze racial data in its admissions process...
A photo illustration of a campus shot of the University of Iowa, a couple of pages from the 2026 Annual Report of the Center for Intellectual Freedom and the quote “I believe that at least some of these actions were illegal, or at least contrary to the spirit of the law that created the Center,” from the report.

Outgoing Iowa Civics Center Leader Accuses Board of Possibly Illegal Actions

The Center for Intellectual Freedom’s interim director accused the regents of violating at least the spirit of the law creating the center. The board president says, “We definitely deny that anything illegal is going on.”

Faculty members and lawmakers stand outside the Capitol Building behind a podium that says Unions Defend Free Speech on Campus

A Planned Intellectual Diversity Accreditation Standard Draws Opposition

The American Association of University Professors president told the Commission on Colleges and Universities that institutions shouldn’t “be expected to prioritize intellectual pluralism on settled scholarly questions.”

Why Universities Need to Start Taking Microaggressions Seriously

Drawing on research into the experiences of Chinese academics in the U.K., we hear how these subtle but powerful discriminatory acts manifest in universities and what can be done to address them.

University of Texas students Eduardo Vazquez, from left, Amy DonJuan and Marco Julian Gonzalez pose for a photo on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026.

Longtime Legal Advocate Decries ‘Coordinated Assault’ on Noncitizens’ Rights

Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, first began advocating for in-state tuition for undocumented students in 1993.

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Opinion

What Knot to Do: Academia Needs More Dyslexic Thinkers and Mentors

Doctoral students should be allowed to pursue multimodal research in lieu of the traditional written dissertation.

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Can Colleges Achieve Viewpoint Diversity Without ‘Affirmative Action for Conservatives’?

Universities and groups pushing to change higher ed have said they support intellectual diversity and similar terms. But few say they’re explicitly trying to attract more right-leaning scholars.

A photo illustration of students covering the canvas with all of their face details distorted by a halftone texture. Several of them are bright orange and have a number over their heads while the others in gray remain uncounted.

How Proposed Changes to the Census Could Affect Native American Students

The changes wouldn’t affect funding for tribal colleges or nontribal Native American–serving institutions but could eliminate datasets used to fund social services for Native people.