Faculty Issues

Princeton says it won’t remove a reference to a professor’s controversial comment about a Black student group from a university-sponsored webpage. Some say this is retaliation, but others say the pro–free speech professor is now advocating censorship.

Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.

New book offers a harsh critique of the rankings industry and its impact on undergraduate colleges and law schools.

Jury finds University of Kansas professor guilty in a China Initiative case, but the federal program’s many critics aren’t persuaded.

David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler write that the pandemic has helped fuel growing government intervention in higher ed.

AAUP releases annual faculty salary data, saying that average faculty pay effectively fell 5 percent this year over last when accounting for runaway inflation.

The NAACP and other civil rights groups have joined forces to target Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin’s ban on teaching inclusive history.