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Iowa’s Civics Center Has to Teach Thousands. It Currently Has One Professor.

State lawmakers said only the Center for Intellectual Freedom can offer required U.S. history and government courses at the University of Iowa. It may need to start hiring.

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Some Kansas Faculty Uneasy Over ‘Vague’ DEI Definitions

The Kansas Board of Regents approved the definition in order to comply with a recent state budget bill. One free speech advocate said the policy amounts to “educational censorship.”

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Inspector General Details ED Cuts From Early Days of Trump’s Second Term

The Education Department didn’t provide all the requested information, which the watchdog said limited its review.

Opinion

A Course Refresh This Summer

Summers traditionally bring the opportunity to refresh and update the courses we teach, and they also bring the chance to look afresh at the course of our own personal careers.

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Opinion

Why Shared Governance Can’t Solve Today’s Student Success Challenges

Higher education has a knowledge problem.

Texas State Capitol Building in Austin.

Texas’s Higher Ed Overseer Dismisses Dozens of Complaints

Republicans created the ombudsman position to investigate alleged violations of their ban on DEI and their gutting of faculty governance bodies.

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Prof. Fired for Palestinian Activism Should Be Reinstated, Arbitrator Says

An arbitrator ruled that Sang Hea Kil, a tenured San José State University professor who was fired in 2025 after...
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Opinion

We Have Never Taught Critical Thinking

AI just makes those failures evident.