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In Black Professor’s Firing, AAUP Finds ‘Racist Tropes’

Indiana University Northwest fired a Black professor after alleging he said something about killing white people. An AAUP report found “racist tropes of incompetent, angry and physically violent Black men in the language used to justify his dismissal.”

How Newark Sees College Aid

Parents are unaware of the help the state of New Jersey will provide.

More Universities Drop ‘U.S. News’ Medical School Rankings

Plus the law school rankings gain a new critic: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The Week in Admissions News

Florida vs. AP in African American studies; backup plans on loan forgiveness; physical education requirements in decline; abortions on campus.

Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium

This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium. In a conversation with Rodney...

More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those...

The Puertoricanization of U.S. Higher Ed

Should Spanish be a domestic language in higher education? In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez’s Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera...

Teaching How to Teach the Holocaust

University of Kentucky embarks on an initiative to train K-12 teachers to teach about the Holocaust. Rising antisemitism nationwide, as well as some recent incidents in the state and on the campus, have made the work feel especially pressing to its supporters.