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New Programs: Instructional Design, Chicano/Latino Studies, Agricultural Communication

The following colleges have started new academic programs in recent weeks: Fairfield University is starting an online master of arts...
Lois Banner, an older white woman with short, light hair wearing a plum-colored sweater.

Racial Comment Inflames Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

A white woman reportedly said she wished she was Black because it would give her an easier career.

Ohio Bill Targeting Strikes, DEI Doesn’t Advance—for Now

Ohio’s Senate Bill 83—which would’ve banned public higher education employee strikes and mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion programs, with some...

San José State Anthropologist Against Reburying Bones Retires

The San José State University professor who drew criticism for opposing reburying Native American bones and for posing with a...
A graph showing the annual number of Chinese-descent scientists who have left the U.S. for either China/Hong Kong or other countries. The numbers going to China steadily increased from 2010 to 2021, with an even faster increase since 2018.

Chinese Scientists Increasingly Leaving U.S.

A new study suggests the Department of Justice’s China Initiative investigations may have strengthened the foreign power by encouraging more scientists to relocate there.

Newly Tenured… at Carleton, Denison, NYIT, Saint Augustine’s

The following colleges have made tenure announcements recently. Carleton College Catherine Licata, cinema and media studies Denison University Anthony Bonifonte...
A photo of Bandy X. Lee, a light-skinned woman with dark hair and bangs, leaning on a shelf in a library.

Yale Professor Who Diagnosed Dershowitz and Trump in Tweet Loses Appeal

A professor lost her—“voluntary,” as Yale puts it—position after tweeting about the two. The courts have dismissed her lawsuit.

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Plain Speaking or Rude? Fight Over ‘Disparaging’ Psychiatry Paper

British scholars differ on study on the effectiveness of antidepressants.