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Building Racial Dialogue in a Time of Backlash
It was no easy task to win approval for a brand-new Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, Leora Auslander and Adom Getachew write.
‘Bankers in the Ivory Tower’
Author sees bankers playing a large role—and a negative one—in higher education.
‘Tarred Healing’
Was what happened to a scrapped photo exhibition on Black communities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about creative differences or censorship?
Return of $5 Million Gift Spurs Academic Freedom Debate
The University of Washington returned the money donated for the Israel studies program after the scholar who led the program signed a letter that criticized Israel.
WPI Faculty Blast Outgoing President
Two letters from faculty groups to the Board of Trustees emphasize the need for transparency in the presidential search process. One charges the outgoing president with eroding shared governance and ignoring faculty concerns.
From Bad to Worse
Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.
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Lessons From the Struggle Against the Old McCarthyism
Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin looks to the past to better understand the alarming present-day rise in attacks on what can and can’t be taught.
Newly Tenured… at Colorado College, Ithaca College, Linfield, Presbyterian
Colorado College Anthony Bull, human biology and kinesiology Janet Burge, mathematics and computer science Nadia Guessous, feminist and gender studies...