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Rigor, Faculty Rights, Completion

Instructor says he was fired -- shortly after he complained to accreditor -- for refusing to water down his curriculum and requirements. Another instructor quit rather than comply.

Punishing a Professor for Blackface

University of Oregon suspends faculty member while investigating her conduct at a Halloween party. Many of her colleagues demand she resign. Legally, can she be sanctioned?
Opinion

Normalized Nastiness

The expectation of excoriation has become a fact of public and academic life, but we need to keep engaging on issues and proposing ideas that address real problems, argues Michael Roth.

‘Deplorable’ NYU Prof on Leave

An NYU professor who used an anonymous Twitter account to criticize the university, trigger warnings, safe spaces and the ‘academic left’ is on paid leave days after his identity was revealed. What happened?

'Ideas Are Not Crimes'

Report from Scholars at Risk analyzes more than 150 instances of attacks on higher education, including campus attacks, targeted killings, prosecutions and violence against student protestors.

Maine's Merger Mania

Many professors say programs are being combined without enough attention to academic issues and the faculty role.

Inflammatory and Turned Away

Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos is touring college campuses across America, and some universities have shut him out because of his rhetoric against groups too numerous to list.

The Column Liberty Pulled

University blocks student paper from publishing column criticizing Trump. Liberty says it acted because the piece was "redundant" with another. The blocked column may be found at the end of this article.