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On National ‘Day of Action for Higher Ed,’ Some Rally, Others Strike
Demonstrations, teach-ins and a graduate-worker walkout highlighted a union-supported, multi-campus event Wednesday designed to push back against attacks on academic freedom, job security and academe more broadly.
Annual Provosts’ Survey Shows Need for AI Policies, Worries Over Campus Speech
Many institutions are not yet prepared to help their faculty members and students navigate artificial intelligence. That’s just one of multiple findings from Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey of chief academic officers.
Traction for the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree
A group of college leaders strategize about how to design a new undergraduate experience—and get an unexpected boost from an accreditor.
Sometimes the Right Is Right
Universities should work with right-leaning critics who want to strengthen academia’s distinctive culture, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey write.
University of Kentucky President Proposes to Strip Faculty Body’s Power
Eli Capilouto released a “draft of principles” Wednesday that would dissolve the University Senate and replace it with an advisory group.
Virginia Officials Scrutinize Two Universities’ DEI Course Syllabi
A spokesman for Governor Glenn Youngkin invoked concerns about “core curriculum mandates that are a thinly veiled attempt to incorporate the progressive left’s groupthink.” Two universities’ diversity education initiatives may be in peril.
Scaled Online Learning as Higher Ed’s ‘Pandora’s Box’
And other imperfect academic equivalencies inspired by a fantastic book on the history of prestige TV.
Milton’s Last Stand, in Florida
Richard Utz sees curricular nostalgia at work in Stanley Fish’s choice to teach Milton at the New College of Florida.