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The Curious Rise of a Conservative—or Civic-Minded?—Center at the University of Florida
GOP lawmakers, governors or boards in eight states have mandated new university centers focused on civics and “classical liberal education.” Critics call them beachheads for the ideological right. Florida’s creation appears to be the largest yet.
Kansas Chemist Gets Final Acquittal in China Ties Case
Five years after arrest in Trump administration crackdown, Chinese-born Franklin Feng Tao gets vindication—and wants his job back
AFT Launches Push for Academic Freedom, Job Security, College Access
The American Federation of Teachers, of which the American Association of University Professors is an affiliate, is launching a $1...
Dickinson State’s Entire Full-Time Nursing Faculty Resigns
All seven full-time nursing faculty members at Dickinson State University in North Dakota resigned Wednesday in response to high workloads...
USC Postdoctoral Scholars Unionize
University of Southern California postdoctoral scholars have “resoundingly” voted to unionize, the new union announced Monday. The vote, held Thursday...
Tulane, U of San Diego Non–Tenure-Track Faculty Members Unionize
Non–tenure-track faculty members at two more private universities have voted to unionize. At Tulane University, full-time teaching faculty members voted...
New York Film Academy Faculty Members, Staff Unionize in NYC
Employees of the New York Film Academy’s New York City campus have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the new union announced...
UNC Fires Professor They Secretly Recorded
The university recorded Larry Chavis’s class without his consent for a professional review. Last week he was told his contract would not be renewed.