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Rebecca Journey, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, thought little of calling her new undergraduate seminar “The Problem of Whiteness.” Though provocatively titled, the anthropology course covered familiar academic territory: how the racial category “white” has changed over time. She was surprised, then, when her inbox exploded in November with vitriolic messages from dozens of strangers. One wrote that she was “deeply evil.” Another: “Blow ...

We are seeing meaningful breakthroughs in the Texas capital, and the University of Austin (UATX) is clearly destined to be a new national model.

The Chicago Principles restated the need to keep the university open to all speakers and political and cultural points of view.

University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Professor Theodore Schurr is apparently an academic recidivist in allowing a diversity of viewpoints in a classroom. For that offense, Dr. Schurr is again the subject of complaints and a call for suspension. Tolerating, let alone encouraging, such diversity of viewpoints in a classroom is now considered harmful and abusive. Dr.…

University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Professor Theodore Schurr is apparently an academic recidivist in allowing a diversity of viewpoints in a classroom. For that offense, Dr. Schurr is again the subject of complaints and a call for suspension. Tolerating, let alone encouraging, such diversity of viewpoints in a classroom is now considered harmful and abusive. Dr.…

OU President Joseph Harroz Jr., who just completed his third school year as president, sat down in an interview with OU Daily Wednesday in his office in Evans Hall to

Readers discuss an essay by Frank Bruni about the missteps by many students and a Times college rankings tool.

The University will launch the Forum for Free Inquiry in the fall of 2023, according to an announcement from President Paul Alivisatos posted on UChicago’s Office of the President website on February 27.  The Forum will be led by inaugural faculty director Tom Ginsburg, UChicago Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor...

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Pro-Israel group criticises demonstrations ‘designed to demean an instructor and intimidate students’