Governance

Legislative scrutiny of the University of Idaho's plan to buy the for-profit University of Phoenix has ramped up recently as key deadlines for the acquisition near.

The institution’s president has appointed Bruce Gilley—who’s argued that a “European moral revolution” ended Africa’s “endemic slave empires” and said the transgender flag symbolizes mutilating children—to teach.

The deal, subtly mentioned in a letter to Arizona’s governor, left more questions than answers as the university remains under fire.

The Duke scholar hired to lead Chapel Hill’s School of Civic Life and Leadership helped write a proposal for it, North Carolina’s provost says.