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On the left, Justin Jones, a Black and Filipino Tennessee lawmaker, wearing a white jacket, and on the right, John Ragan, a white Tennessee lawmaker, also wearing a light-colored jacket.

Tennessee Again Targets ‘Divisive Concepts’

While other Southern states advance legislation targeting what they define as DEI, Tennessee has passed legislation inviting complaints about professors.

Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson's Campus Economics: How Economic Thinking Can Help Improve College and University Decisions (Princeton University Press)

Economics and Higher Education

Authors discuss their book on “how economic thinking can help improve college and university decisions.”

New Programs: Criminal Justice, Sport Management, Engineering, Ministry

A merican International College is starting an M.S. in criminal justice. Centre College is starting minors in engineering and health...

Nebraska-Kearney Professor on Leave After Allegedly Striking Student

A University of Nebraska at Kearney visiting professor is on paid administrative leave after allegedly striking at least one student...
A statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
Opinion

Tenure Is a Founding American Value

Florida lawmakers can either attack academic freedom or defend American constitutional traditions—but they can’t do both, Adam Sitze writes.

Striking Rutgers union members hold red and white signs

Rutgers Unions Suspend Strike After Big Gains

The weeklong Rutgers strike is pausing Monday after unions, the university and New Jersey’s governor announced “framework” deals including large raises. Chicago State and Eastern Illinois also suspend strikes.

A photo of the Texas Capitol building.

A Texas Trilogy of Anti-DEI, Tenure Bills

Three Texas bills would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who “attempt to compel” certain beliefs and ban what the legislation defines as diversity, equity and inclusion programming. The State Senate has already passed one.

Harvard Faculty Forms Group on Academic Freedom

Fifty faculty members at Harvard University have created the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. In an op-ed in The...