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Faculty Tenure

Tenured and Making $0?

Emails suggest a Purdue University math faculty member has been punished for his COVID-19–era teaching. The university says it “regrets that some have chosen to release incomplete confidential personnel files.”

Quick Takes

Professor Let Go After Officiating LGBTQ+ Wedding Sues

A professor who says Calvin University denied him tenure for his LGBTQ+ rights advocacy and then didn’t reappoint him for...
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Faculty Academic Freedom

Ex-Presidents for Academic Freedom

PEN America has convened a group of 100-plus former college presidents to push back on threats to academic freedom as higher education remains a frequent target for politicians.

Quick Takes

Trinity International President Makes Anti-Trans Donor Pitch

A fundraising letter from the president of Trinity International University connecting a recent mass shooting in Nashville, Tenn., to the...
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Admissions Traditional-Age

Looking Back and Looking Ahead

A new data dashboard is helping college leaders prepare for expected enrollment declines and demographic shifts.

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Views

DEI’s Critics Are Missing the Point

Many criticisms of DEI are misguided and miss the essential fact that attention to diversity, equity and inclusion advances learning for everyone, Shaya Gregory Poku writes.

By Shaya Gregory Poku

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Faculty Diversity & Equity

Tennessee Again Targets ‘Divisive Concepts’

While other Southern states advance legislation targeting what they define as DEI, Tennessee has passed legislation inviting complaints about professors.

Diversity Race & Ethnicity

Wall Separating Black College From White Neighborhood Torn Down

an eight-foot wall originally erected to keep Morgan State University, a historically Black institution, separate from an adjoining white neighborhood...