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Judge Halts UC Strike Supporting Pro-Palestine Protesters

A judge has halted a University of California academic workers’ strike that was supporting pro-Palestinian protesters. UAW Local 4811 members...
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‘Is Our System of Free Speech Failing Us?’

In a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed, Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, discusses the impact of the pro-Palestinian protest movement on campus speech.

Fears Mount Over Detention of Academics Who Traveled to China

Several Chinese academics working overseas have disappeared or been detained on return to China as the country’s leaders expand national security laws.

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Opinion

The Uncertain Future of Private Research Universities

The growing share of research costs covered by institutions risks making the private research university business model unsustainable, Robert A. Brown writes.

University of California Sues Local UAW Over Campus Strikes

The University of California is suing United Auto Workers Local 4811, the union that represents thousands of employees who have...
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‘Unprecedented Steps’: Board Pulls Plug on Columbia Law Review Website

After student editors published a submitted article Monday accusing Israel of genocide, the journal’s Board of Directors took the whole site down. One editor describes how it happened.

Geographer Maps Origins of ‘Publish or Perish’

The phrase “publish or perish” is the dictum of modern academic survival. It sums up what many researchers at universities...
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Faculty Power on the Line in Kentucky

University of Kentucky leaders are on the verge of replacing a strong University Senate with a purely advisory body. Faculty members are asking a simple question: Why?