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What Illinois Kept Secret
University admits some officials used personal email accounts to inappropriately withhold information sought in FOIA requests on Salaita and other controversies. Here's what the chancellor and others didn't want known.
Extracurricular Criminal
Amid calls for his termination, Central Connecticut State suspends professor who's had skirmishes with the law -- even though none of the crimes and alleged crimes relate to teaching or publications. When professors break the law, what should a college do?
Free Speech Trumps Civility
Federal judge, in victory for Steven Salaita, refuses to dismiss lawsuit charging U. of Illinois with violating his free speech and contract rights.
Solidarity to Save Jobs
At Eastern Illinois, a faculty union that includes tenured and tenure-track professors agrees to extend a contract and put off a raise to save the positions of 29 people who teach off the tenure track.
Not So Fast
The Charleston School of Law says it can't afford to pay a tenured professor. But a judge is blocking her termination as her lawsuit works its way through the courts.
Big Completion Goals in Texas
Texas joins the college completion agenda with new goal for 60 percent of its young adults to have college degrees or certificates by 2030.
Crick and Watson Rejected?
Article speculates that their landmark work on DNA, if evaluated by today's standards, might not have found a journal.
Opinion
Motor City, Rusting
The 18th century saw the rise of a taste for crumbling architecture and beautiful ruins. Scott McLemee looks at a study of the contemporary equivalent.