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Pro-Palestinian Columbia Professor Departs After Investigation
Katherine Franke, a law professor whose interview became the subject of a university investigation, says she’s effectively been terminated.
KU Professor Fired Amid China Initiative Sues to Regain Job
The University of Kansas fired a professor whom a jury convicted in 2022 as part of the first Trump administration’s...
U Wisconsin System May Stop Requiring Searches for Top Roles
The Universities of Wisconsin, a 13-institution system, may eliminate the requirement that its president form search committees to help find...
The Dream of a Climate Justice University
Drawing on 30 years of experience researching climate, Jennie C. Stephens argues that modern universities are systematically unequipped to fight climate change.
Report: Trustees Pressed Chapel Hill on Student Admissions
The chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees appeared to pressure employees to admit...
U of Michigan Says DEI Official Fired Over ‘Behavior’ at Protest, Conference
The New York Times reported that Rachel Dawson was fired after allegedly saying that Jews didn’t need her office’s diversity services. After that article, the university added that she misbehaved at a protest.
Report: U of Wisconsin System Paid Huron $51M From 2019–23
The Universities of Wisconsin, a 13-institution system, paid Huron Consulting Group at least $51 million from 2019 to 2023, WORT...
N.C. State Employee Denounced University Before His Suicide
Marshall Brain II founded the popular website HowStuffWorks, hosted a TV show and taught aspiring entrepreneurs. But he ended his life hours after he accused higher-ups of forcing him to resign.