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Redefining Disabilities
Moving beyond the language of deficits and deficiencies and finding strength in difference.
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Protecting Free Speech, Promoting Free Inquiry
Rajiv Vinnakota offers recommendations for campus leaders as they prepare for student protests to resume this fall.
UW Oshkosh Depletes Reserves
Facing steep financial challenges, the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh has spent all of the discretionary money in its unrestricted...
Training Future Doctors to Be Health Equity Advocates
Many doctors don’t address the nonmedical social conditions that determine patients’ health outcomes. A growing number of medical schools are focused on changing that.
UW System DEI Chief Resigns After Fraught Year
Monica Smith, the chief diversity officer for the Universities of Wisconsin, resigned on Thursday less than a year after she...
Colleges in Republicans’ Crosshairs Enroll Only a Sliver of U.S. College Students
About one percent of U.S. undergraduates attend the 12 selective, mostly private institutions under Congressional scrutiny. But conservatives cast them as emblematic of higher education writ large.
House Education Committee Threatens to Subpoena Northwestern
Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, says she’s prepared to subpoena...
Judge: States’ Lawsuit Challenging SAVE Can Proceed
Three states can proceed with a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new income-driven repayment plan for student loan borrowers known...