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A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

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Opinion
Career Advice Carpe Careers

Students and Research Mentors Can Navigate Career Conversations Together

Raquel Y. Salinas offers advice for graduate students and research mentors on how to have better conversations about career planning.

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Faculty Issues Academic Freedom

Denied Vote on Pro-BDS Resolution, MLA Convention Attendees Protest

The backlash continues to the Modern Language Association Executive Council’s fall decision not to let members vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution.

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Faculty Issues Academic Freedom

Pro-Palestinian Columbia Professor Departs After Investigation

Katherine Franke, a law professor whose interview became the subject of a university investigation, says she’s effectively been terminated.

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Faculty Issues Research

‘Historians Should Be Everywhere’: Questions for the AHA’s Retiring Leader

Jim Grossman, exiting after 15 years as executive director of the American Historical Association, discusses his efforts to multiply historians’ routes to tenure, The 1619 Project’s impact on history debates and why policymakers need historians.

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Academic Freedom Requires DEI

The AAUP gets it, Jonathan Feingold writes.

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Faculty Issues Academic Freedom

Watching Their Words: Faculty Say They’re Self-Censoring

Many scholars say they’re not giving certain assignments and are being careful in what they say to students—and to one another.

Quick Takes

KU Professor Fired Amid China Initiative Sues to Regain Job

The University of Kansas fired a professor whom a jury convicted in 2022 as part of the first Trump administration’s...