Faculty Issues

Some of the state’s biggest public institutions have voluntarily dissolved their DEI offices. But will that be enough to forestall legislation that guts them even more?

Many education and civil rights advocates are worried the proposed House legislation would justify racial profiling and hinder American science.

Some American Political Science Association members are criticizing their organization for welcoming back a pro-Trump think tank that has been absent from annual meetings since 2021. But the association says it was never banned.

The choice of a vice presidential candidate with deep ties to China prompts Jeffrey Wasserstrom to reflect on trips taken and not.

The university courted controversy by slashing programs and laying off both tenured and nontenured faculty members. More spooked professors are leaving in addition to those cuts, but so are key leaders who pushed them.

The movement to boycott Israeli universities puts academic freedom at risk, Cary Nelson writes.

Scientists have the knowledge to combat misinformation online, and now some are receiving the institutional support to communicate with a broad public audience.