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Denied Vote on Pro-BDS Resolution, MLA Convention Attendees Protest
The backlash continues to the Modern Language Association Executive Council’s fall decision not to let members vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution.
Pro-Palestinian Columbia Professor Departs After Investigation
Katherine Franke, a law professor whose interview became the subject of a university investigation, says she’s effectively been terminated.
‘Historians Should Be Everywhere’: Questions for the AHA’s Retiring Leader
Jim Grossman, exiting after 15 years as executive director of the American Historical Association, discusses his efforts to multiply historians’ routes to tenure, The 1619 Project’s impact on history debates and why policymakers need historians.
Watching Their Words: Faculty Say They’re Self-Censoring
Many scholars say they’re not giving certain assignments and are being careful in what they say to students—and to one another.
KU Professor Fired Amid China Initiative Sues to Regain Job
Editor Exodus From Elsevier’s ‘Journal of Human Evolution’
Historians Condemn ‘Scholasticide’ in Gaza at Conference
The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus full membership.
N.C. State Employee Denounced University Before His Suicide
Marshall Brain II founded the popular website HowStuffWorks, hosted a TV show and taught aspiring entrepreneurs. But he ended his life hours after he accused higher-ups of forcing him to resign.