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The U.S. Started Investigating a Professor’s Pro-Palestine Speech. Then She Was Fired.
The Office for Civil Rights said it didn’t ask for the firing as part of a probe into how Muhlenberg College handled complaints related to a professor who allegedly made “pro-Hamas statements."
Professor Who Was Secretly Taped, Then Fired, Sues Chapel Hill
The now-former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor whose classes the business school secretly recorded, and whose contract...
Opinion
Institutional Neutrality Doesn’t Go Far Enough
It doesn’t matter if the president is neutral if no one else in the university is, Peter C. Herman writes.
Community of Practice Leads to Improved Student Outcomes, Enrollment
An initiative at Indiana University Northwest finds encouraging faculty to engage with research-backed pedagogical interventions has reduced equity gaps among student groups and boosted overall retention.
Prof. Accused of Being White Supremacist Leaves Austin Peay
An assistant professor of counseling psychology has left Austin Peay State University after antifascists accused him online of being a...
Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary.
Leading Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct
The National Institutes of Health said Thursday that Dr. Eliezer Masliah, a prominent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease researcher, falsified or...