Filter & Sort
Firing Tenured Faculty, With No Appeal Right
North Dakota’s House majority leader has filed legislation that would let the presidents of Dickinson State, Bismarck State and perhaps other colleges review tenured faculty at any time—and fire them, with no employee power to appeal.
Opinion
Why I Hate the Term ‘Latinx’
If we’re serious about inclusion, it’s time for academe to drop “Latinx” in favor of the term “Latine,” Bryan Betancur writes.
Tool Maps Campus Sexual Assault Policies, Stats
End Rape on Campus, an initiative of the nonprofit Civic Nation, released a new digital tool Wednesday that allows users...
UCLA Suspends Ecologist, Scientists Ask Why
Nature reports that over 300 scientists are urging the University of California, Los Angeles, to rescind the discipline of a...
Short-Term Pell a Priority for Skills First Coalition
The Skills First Coalition, a group of American businesses and education and training providers, wants the 118th Congress to pass...
Hamline Faculty Calls on President to Step Down
Hamline University’s full-time faculty members voted 71 to 12 on Monday to call for the resignation of President Fayneese Miller...
A ‘Wearable’ Monitors Health Without a Battery: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Rahim Esfandyar-Pour, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biomedical engineering at the...
Former DeSales Priest Sentenced in Child Sex Abuse Case
A former priest who worked at DeSales University has been sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to...