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The Kansas state capitol, in Topeka, next to an image on the campus of the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas.
Diversity

Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed

The budget bill would also freeze tuition revenue, allow institutions to fire tenured faculty faster and develop plans to eliminate a tenth of positions and expenses from universities’ leadership offices.

Opinion
Columns Debatable Ideas

Censorship Is Bigger in Texas

Texas officials apparently think Texas students are stupid snowflakes who must be protected from hearing controversial ideas.

By John K. Wilson

Opinion
Columns Confessions of a Community College Dean

Don’t Record What You Don’t Want to Have to Watch

Playing Big Brother would get tiring quickly. Any provost with enough time to review the videos of hundreds of classes isn’t doing their job.

By Matt Reed

Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.
Faculty Academic Freedom

UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty

The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”

Echoes in the Quad
Opinion
Columns Echoes in the Quad

How Elite Institutions Aided the Red Scare Attack on Academic Freedom

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

By Dominique J. Baker

Three historic photos put together in an illustration with damage added to the photos. Clockwise from top left: An elevated view of a suffrage parade, in the rain, in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1910s. A portrait of Susan B. Anthony. A group of young female suffragists, wearing sailor costumes, on a float decorated to resemble a boat, the mainsail reads “Votes for Women,” and the marquee reads “We Are Rudderless—We Need The Ballot,” 1900.”
Faculty Academic Freedom

Can Embattled Women’s and Gender Studies Programs Survive?

Scholars say recent Republican-led attacks on the field are nothing new, but nonetheless alarming.

The Ezekiel W. Cullen building with the UH logo on the front on the University of Houston campus.
Quick Takes

Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to ‘Indoctrinate’ Students

Faculty members in the University of Houston’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science were asked to sign a three-page...
Students on lawn in front of Schaeffer Hall at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City in 2024.
Governance State Oversight

A ‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Overhaul Higher Ed in Iowa—If They Actually Pass

The state’s new House Higher Education Committee has advanced a raft of bills that would hit universities’ pocketbooks, hide presidential candidates’ names, and more.