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When Free Speech and Racist Speech Collide

The First Amendment is important, but it's not recommended as college officials' first response when students engage in racist and offensive speech.

Call for Doubling Pell, Forgiving Debt

John King Jr., a former education secretary, calls for debt forgiveness and doubling Pell Grants during hearing on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers worry pandemic will worsen educational disparities.
Opinion

Refusing Even to Decide?

Both last week's NLRB decision and a case before the Supreme Court, writes Patrick Hornbeck, focus on one query: What kind of questions can courts constitutionally ask about faculty at religiously affiliated educational institutions?

Admissions Offers Revoked Over Racist Comments

Rescinding acceptances isn't a new phenomenon, but amid a national debate on racism, those decisions -- particularly at public institutions -- are raising free speech concerns.

‘Botched’

Two black scholars say UVA denied them tenure after belittling their work and their contributions to their fields, erring in procedure along the way.
Opinion

Protecting Academic Freedom in the Black Lives Matter Era

Faculty often fail to rally behind colleagues who buck the conventional wisdom, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, citing the recent case of a professor who criticized the BLM movement.

DACA Lives for Now

Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was "arbitrary and capricious."
Opinion

Dear DEI People: Your Black Colleagues Are Waiting

Courtney N. Wright asks, why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?