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Outgoing Iowa Civics Center Leader Accuses Board of Possibly Illegal Actions
The Center for Intellectual Freedom’s interim director accused the regents of violating at least the spirit of the law creating the center. The board president says, “We definitely deny that anything illegal is going on.”
Vanderbilt Places Divinity School Into Receivership
Faculty Advisers Resign After Call for ‘Reset’ of Iowa Civics Center
Eleven members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom’s Advisory Council stepped down this week. It’s the latest birth pang for such entities, which are created by Republican lawmakers and boards at public universities.
AAUP Urges AAU to Reject Nebraska
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking to rejoin the prestigious group of research universities after it was expelled in 2011
Changes Roil Oklahoma Liberal Arts College
Auburn Faculty Protest Board’s Curricular Overhaul
Three months after the Board of Trustees abolished the faculty senate and gave itself curricular control, faculty are back on campus and making their disapproval known.
Architect of Ohio Higher Ed Overhaul Calls Shared Governance ‘Garbage’
Jerry Cirino, former chair of the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee, successfully passed a sweeping, controversial law in his state. He’s an example of state lawmakers getting more involved in colleges and universities.
Why Shared Governance Is Breaking Down, and How to Fix It
The “pick your lane” approach with faculty owning curriculum and the administration owning the budget doesn’t work anymore, if it ever really did.