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Fireable Tweets
Months after a professor's comments on Twitter set off a controversy, Kansas Board of Regents adopts policy on when professors and other employees can be fired for "improper use of social media."
Opinion
Class Warfare in Academe
Peter D.G. Brown considers the real winners and real fatalities of the academic workforce.
Scaling Back in San Jose
University will offer a new round of the courses it created with Udacity -- but this time as regular college classes.
Opinion
The Great Bookie
Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain.
Policy Denied
Santa Clara U.'s Faculty Senate has deemed the administration's new exclusion of elective abortions from insurance coverage "invalid," and wants the Board of Trustees to take up the matter.
Another Push for Embargoes
Second history organization comes out against requirement that all dissertations be made available online.
Backing the Israel Boycott
American Studies Association members vote by a two-to-one margin to endorse the boycott of Israeli universities.
Caught in the Crossfire
AAUP finds that professor was denied tenure for his role in a conflict between linguistics and TESL faculty, which helped prompt a faculty vote of no confidence in Northeastern Illinois U.'s president and provost.