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Universities Under Attack
New report documents a range of types of attacks on higher education worldwide, including killings, imprisonments, wrongful dismissals and expulsions, and restrictions on the movements of students and scholars.
Sexorship at Northwestern?
Did the university demand the removal of a controversial journal issue from its website and then threaten to censor future issues?
Opinion
The New McCarthyism
Jonathan Judaken describes what it's like to be attacked as anti-Israel by people who don't understand or don't want to understand your ideas and research.
AAUP Censures 4 Institutions
Association's annual meeting on academic freedom issues features a debate on whether Steven Salaita's rights were violated and consensus that Wisconsin politicians are undermining their university system.
Opinion
Faculty Roles: The Next Diversity Frontier
It's time to stop pretending that all faculty members should or realistically have the talents to divide their efforts similarly among teaching, research and service, writes Judith Shapiro.
Bad Review
National group of campus writing programs kicks a poet off a committee because of Twitter project that some view as racist but others view as artistic expression.
New Money for Japan Studies
The Japanese government gives $5 million each to Columbia, Georgetown and MIT for endowed professorships in contemporary Japanese politics. Gifts come as some worry about political science shifting away from area studies.
Professor Meets World
What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe?