Shared Governance

Backed by lawmakers and university leaders but opposed by hundreds of faculty, the initiative has hired professors with similar backgrounds—including a few who’ve expressed sharp political opinions.

A professor’s accusation that another’s course is antisemitic and dangerous spilled out into public after the interim president weighed in and his private email was shared.

The university built a $60 million law building on its flagship campus. Now it’ll serve as a branch of a law school 80 miles away.

Peter Eckel breaks down the discrete jobs that make up effective faculty governance.

The flagship is eliminating dozens of programs, including an LGBTQ studies minor that a conservative lawmaker has criticized. He says he’ll soon target other institutions.

The University of Arizona shed hundreds of jobs, replaced leaders and slashed budgets in an effort to shave $100 million off a major shortfall announced one year ago.