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Academic Freedom and Responsibility
Discrimination against a race is vastly different from discrimination against an ideological viewpoint, argues Jennifer Ballengee.
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Those Were the Days of the MLA, My Friends
Lindsay Waters delves into the multiple reasons he'll miss having the opportunity to attend the Modern Language Association's convention in person this year and reflects on its past impact.
Negotiations Go Astray in Connecticut
Faculty members in Connecticut state universities condemn their governing board's proposal to do away with faculty IP rights to online content, academic freedom protections, travel and research funds, and more.
Advising in the Time of COVID
The ABCs of successful advising both before, during and after the pandemic are actually the LRCs: listen, respect and care. That’s according to new data from the National Survey of Student Engagement.
Power Differentials
Professor who studies pederasty sues students who've said he's sympathetic to pedophiles. Fellow classicists argue that he's treading into dicey legal and ethical territory in trying to police expression.
‘The Chicana/o/x Dream’
Authors discuss new book on Mexican American students.
For-Profit Chain's Bankruptcy Grinds to an End
The bankruptcy case began in 2014 after Anthem parent FCC Holdings Inc. was accused of predrawing federal financial aid dollars based on unsubstantiated enrollment projections.
Calm Before the Storm
The NSF’s new data on Ph.D.s earned in 2019 include some bright spots, including gains for underrepresented minority groups. But COVID-19 threatens to wreak havoc on soon-to-be and recent Ph.D.s for years to come, experts say.