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The Hard Truth About FIRE’s Political Mistake
The false narrative that FIRE spread—that only “the on-campus left” endangered free speech within higher education—became the justification for external repression.
For Now, Judge Won’t Reinstate Kentucky Professor Calling for War on Israel
A federal judge is, for now, declining to return to the classroom a professor whom the University of Kentucky removed...
Lane Community College Board Approves Budget Reduction
After a dramatic year of infighting at the institution, the board is moving forward with an $8 million budget cut over three years, to administrators’ relief and faculty’s dismay.
Under ‘Immense Pressure,’ South Dakota Adopts Post-Tenure Review
While the South Dakota Board of Regents says post-tenure review is a move toward increased accountability, critics say the policy will effectively kill tenure in the state.
Unreleased Report on Maryland President’s Alleged Plagiarism May Have Cost $600K
The University System of Maryland and its flagship College Park institution are refusing to release the report of an investigation...
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Imagining Sophocles in Brooklyn
And, scene: This is what it’s like to read Sophocles aloud in my community college classroom.
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The Scarlet A: Activism Under Attack at Harvard
This latest firing exposes a problem of repression at Harvard that transcends ideological borders and threatens everyone’s freedom.
Austin Peay Reinstates Professor Fired for Sharing Kirk Headline
Nearly four months after he was terminated for reposting a news headline that quoted the late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s...