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If Republicans maintain their slight edge in the race for the House of Representatives, look for an uptick in scrutiny of student-debt relief, Title IX, and other higher-ed issues. → Read More
The university called the faculty members’ proposed work “adverse to the university’s interests.” A national faculty leader called the prohibition an “attempt to muzzle” these professors. → Read More
The Chapel Hill professor was implicated in an infamous scandal. To focus on her culpability is to miss a disturbing truth about higher education in America. → Read More
Participants, who can register and attend free, will have the opportunity to take part in several sessions on reporting strategies, finding troves of data, and the writing craft. → Read More
The Food and Drug Administration may give full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine as soon as Monday. A slew of vaccine requirements from colleges may follow. → Read More
The development was a dramatic turnabout in the saga that has come to symbolize public colleges’ vulnerability to political forces in a polarized country. → Read More
The Nikole Hannah-Jones case has Black scholars asking if they’re welcome. It’s not the first time. → Read More
The new federal guidance also provides recommendations for campuses where not everyone is vaccinated. → Read More
The decision by UNC’s Board of Trustees not to consider Nikole Hannah-Jones for tenure departed from precedent and outraged professors on campus. → Read More
More colleges are announcing that they will require students to be vaccinated. Here are the ones we know about. → Read More
Michigan has seen a higher per-capita increase in new Covid-19 cases over the last week than any other state. → Read More
The Maine campus has reported at least 34 active cases in the college’s isolation housing and 50 more students — who may have been exposed to the coronavirus — in quarantine. → Read More
“Previously, most of the spread was off campus,” the faculty-senate president told the university’s student newspaper. “However, it seems like we now have an outbreak on campus.” → Read More
In stepping down, F. King Alexander joins a list of college presidents whose reputations were marred by the nexus of sexual misconduct and big-time college sports. → Read More
Oregon State University trustees placed F. King Alexander on probation Wednesday. But not before he unloaded on Louisiana State University, where his past handling of sexual-assault accusations is under scrutiny. → Read More
The university’s president said the campus’s test-positivity rate had dropped by 90 percent recently, and cited several other reasons for relaxing restrictions. → Read More
“There is no mistaking the impact” of the president’s rhetoric on the violence, the education secretary said, “and it is the inflection point for me.” → Read More
The Connecticut education commissioner is the first in his family to attend college, a former adjunct, and a longtime advocate of public education. → Read More
The revelation that the Rev. John I. Jenkins had tested positive brought calls for his resignation and charges of a double standard by Notre Dame. → Read More
The news followed a report that he was in a sexual relationship that included his wife and the attendant. Falwell denied involvement and said he had not resigned. → Read More