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'Ideas Are Not Crimes'
Report from Scholars at Risk analyzes more than 150 instances of attacks on higher education, including campus attacks, targeted killings, prosecutions and violence against student protestors.
Wanted: Disabled Faculty Members
For many disabled scholars, the choices they face when negotiating job market accommodations are deeply complex, fraught and risky, argue Jay Dolmage and Stephanie Kerschbaum.
What Faculty Writers Need
If you struggle with writing, you shouldn't think the problem rests solely with you, says Jennifer Ahern-Dodson.
Too Old and Too Female for Fashion Studies?
Departmental self-study at Columbia College in Chicago raises issues about gender and age of adjuncts, leading to charges of bias.
Iowa State Latest Campus With Racist Posters
Racists posters appeared Thursday morning at about 20 locations around Iowa State University, the latest university this fall to see...
The Great Pumpkin
The Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown are part of Halloween. In today's Academic Minute, Washington and Lee University's Stephen Lind...
Borrower Defense Rules Finalized
Education Department releases regulations to protect student borrowers against fraudulent and abusive institutions. Although rules are aimed at for-profit colleges, critics say they could have repercussions for all colleges.
Polarized Political Clout
Campaign contributions from for-profit colleges continue to tilt heavily to Republicans. But the struggling sector's political giving is down since peaking in 2012.