Governance

Attacks on public higher education are attacks on American democracy, Philip DiStefano writes.

By Philip DiStefano

Numerous Indiana University employees will move to Purdue as the institutions dissolve their joint venture in Indianapolis. But many faculty members worry they’ll be left without tenure or a departmental home.

Texas A&M already lost its president in the wake of a Texas Tribune article on the mishandled hiring of a Black professor. Now, the Tribune connects politics to the investigation of a current professor.

Catholic colleges and universities are having to revamp their governance structures as their founding religious orders take a step back, a new report says.