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The Original Understandings of the Fourth Amendment
How well do you know your constitutional amendments? In today’s Academic Minute, Northern Kentucky University’s Michael Mannheimer looks into an...
Divisive Academic Freedom Conference Proceeds
Controversial event on academic freedom at Stanford University goes forward amid controversy. Speakers include Amy Wax, Jordan Peterson, Scott Atlas, Joshua Katz and more.
Will Affirmative Action Debate Kill Legacy Admissions?
Supreme Court is likely to bar preferences based on race but not based on alumni status. But some think colleges will feel forced to abandon the latter.
Admissions Dean Under Investigation for Alleged Discrimination
Former employees of the Tufts admission office allege their higher-ups discriminated against staff of color. The university has hired an outside law firm to investigate.
Opinion
Ethical College Admissions: The Supreme Court
Jim Jump writes of the implications of what the justices said.
Deeply Divided
Yeshiva University announced plans to start a new LGBTQ club while continuing its legal battle with the existing one. The ordeal gets at bigger questions roiling the Orthodox campus about who has a right to decide how LGBTQ students gather.
Opinion
What the People Want
Across partisan lines, citizens agree on one thing—how public universities should spend their money, David V. Rosowsky, E. Gordon Gee and Stephen M. Gavazzi write.
Professor Apologizes for ‘Thriller’ Halloween Costume
Holly O’Neill, a professor of chemistry and interim assistant dean of the College of Arts and Science at Washburn University...