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Humanities Are Shrinking, Except at Community Colleges
Global survey of higher education finds the trend everywhere but at U.S. two-year institutions.
Undemocratic Civics at Purdue?
Some professors say the university is pursuing a civics literacy requirement against the will of the faculty and in so doing giving students the wrong message.
Who Can Fire a Professor?
A tenured professor in Hawaii is at risk of being terminated through a decision by the Legislature.
Opinion
Psycho-Editorial Therapy
Scott McLemee explores Revise: The Scholar-Writer's Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript by Pamela Haag.
Legislating Against Critical Race Theory
More than a dozen states considered or passed legislation targeting critical race theory this year. How has this academic concept become so politicized?
Opinion
What Will Remain?
As colleges and universities return to in-classroom teaching, what practices that emerged during the pandemic will carry over? Shigeru Miyagawa and Meghan Perdue offer some answers.
'Heritage and Hate'
Scholar discusses his book on “old South rhetoric at Southern universities.”
Thoughts From the Public on Title IX
On the first of five days of comment hearings, speakers advocated for and against changes to the Title IX regulations made by former secretary of education Betsy DeVos.