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Emporia State Cut Tenured Faculty. Enrollment Plunged.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but the Kansas university’s head-count troubles have worsened. Might other institutions following its example see a similar fate?

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Opinion

A Call for Cognitive Kindness

Drawing lessons from cognitive psychology, we must transform our courses and university structures to be more kind to students’ minds, Karen Yu writes.

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Showcasing Solutions for Better Campus Discourse

At a gathering focused on pluralism, academics, nonprofit leaders and college administrators assess the state of campus discourse and spotlight steps to improve it.

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Promoting Academic Freedom, from UChicago to… Hamline?

Free expression debates continue at universities. And when traditional institutions don’t back speech, others, such as Heterodox Academy and Jordan Peterson's new venture, step in.

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Gettysburg College Shutters Acclaimed Literary Journal

Administrators say The Gettysburg Review does not fit the college’s new curriculum, which focuses on student experiences. Staff—and former interns—disagree.

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Arizona Faculty Threatened After Online Commotion Over Gender Teaching

College of Nursing employees were called "groomers" and received threats in response to Libs of TikTok's posting of two class slides. Faculty members are criticizing the university’s response.

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Opinion

4 Ways Universities Gaslight DEI Initiatives

The slowdown, the pushback, the shutdown and the blowback are all common gaslighting tactics, Megan MacKenzie, Özlem Sensoy, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Nathalie Sinclair and Laurel Weldon write.

Columbia, MIT Professors Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Professors at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, according to...