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Vanderbilt Places Divinity School Into Receivership

Vanderbilt University has placed its divinity school into receivership, a move that officials told The Nashville Banner is intended to...
Students on lawn in front of Schaeffer Hall at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City in 2024.

Faculty Advisers Resign After Call for ‘Reset’ of Iowa Civics Center

Eleven members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom’s Advisory Council stepped down this week. It’s the latest birth pang for such entities, which are created by Republican lawmakers and boards at public universities.

A low angle photo of flowers in front of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus gateway.

AAUP Urges AAU to Reject Nebraska

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking to rejoin the prestigious group of research universities after it was expelled in 2011

Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, a very tall white man with gray hair in a distinct widow's peak, speaks at an event in February in Washington, D.C.

Changes Roil Oklahoma Liberal Arts College

Faculty and students are sounding the alarm about recent changes at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma—changes many...
Auburn University faculty rally outside the Board of Trustees meeting.

Auburn Faculty Protest Board’s Curricular Overhaul

Three months after the Board of Trustees abolished the faculty senate and gave itself curricular control, faculty are back on campus and making their disapproval known.

Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, a white man with white hair, wearing a suit, holds a microphone in the Senate chamber.

Architect of Ohio Higher Ed Overhaul Calls Shared Governance ‘Garbage’

Jerry Cirino, former chair of the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee, successfully passed a sweeping, controversial law in his state. He’s an example of state lawmakers getting more involved in colleges and universities.

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Opinion

Why Shared Governance Is Breaking Down, and How to Fix It

The “pick your lane” approach with faculty owning curriculum and the administration owning the budget doesn’t work anymore, if it ever really did.

A photo illustration combining shaking hands, a worker protest and text from "A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards" including the signature of US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
Opinion

Faculty Should Lead Way in Responding to Compact 2.0

No university should respond to Secretary McMahon’s letter without significant faculty involvement.