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Mizzou Won’t Punish Student for Racist Snapchat
Citing First Amendment rights, the University of Missouri said Monday that it will not take action against a student who shared a Snapchat that contained a racial slur and seemed to encourage violence toward Black people.
HEROES Act at Center of Debt-Relief Legal Fight
Executive overreach or legal use of statutory authority? That will be a key question for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider when it hears arguments in two debt-relief lawsuits early this year.
An ‘Ax Falling’ at Manhattanville
College announces tenured faculty layoffs and program suspensions as part of an academic realignment. Professors wonder what will be left after the college is done cutting.
New Hope Center Report on the ‘College SNAP Gap’
A new report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University offers guidance to state...
Foxx Wins Chair of House Ed and Workforce Committee
Representative Virginia Foxx is returning to the top post on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce following a...
UW Madison Scholar Resigns Amid Ancestry Scandal
Kay LeClaire, a Wisconsin artist and activist accused of faking various Native American identities, resigned as the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s first ever community leader in residence at the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Design and Material Culture. Critics say LeClaire is white with no Native American ancestry.
Report: VCU Medical School Depended on Slavery
The medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University depended on and profited from slavery, according to a report commissioned by the...
Will Law Schools Respond to ‘U.S. News’ Changes?
Reactions were muted or critical to a series of ways the magazine said it would improve its rankings.