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Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms

Defending a new law requiring “intellectual diversity” from professors, the Indiana attorney general echoes Florida and asserts that “curriculum of a public university is government speech.”

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Lawmaker Claims Credit for Antisemitism Review at Florida Universities

State Representative Randy Fine says that after he repeatedly called the state university chancellor about a “Muslim terror textbook,” the system launched an evaluation of courses at all public universities.

Opinion

Curiosity: From Forbidden Fruit to Catalyst of Progress

How and why curiosity shifted from vice to virtue—and what colleges can do to drive it.

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A Big Chunk of Professors Flunked U of Florida Post-Tenure Review

After the state required post-tenure reviews, roughly one-fifth of the UF professors evaluated in the first round were either found lacking, decided to leave or chose to give up research—and likely their tenure with it. At Florida State, by contrast, all professors passed muster.

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Opinion

Rethinking Student Engagement

Students have changed, and instructors should reconsider their assumptions about what engagement means, Mary C. Kern and Terri R. Kurtzberg write.

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Survey Finds Most Professors Are Comfortable Teaching Sensitive Topics

A snapshot of academic freedom perceptions in a tumultuous academic year yields results that may surprise higher education observers. But demographic breakdowns might provide a more complex picture.

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Opinion

Why Aren’t College Grads ‘Job-Ready’?

Patrick J. Casey argues that the reluctance to enforce deadlines and other workplace norms is not serving students well.

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Funding Student Success: Boosting Undergrad Teaching Grants

Rice University promotes innovation among undergraduate faculty through a $60,000 annual grant.