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Student filmmakers at UCLA were told not to identify their institution in a project about a 1991 campus demonstration, vexing the students and raising concerns about academic freedom. Chris Walsh was a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991, when the world watched U.S. bombers litter Baghdad with a constellation of explosions during the first Persian Gulf War. Soon after, he joined thousands of other UCLA students and faculty in a massive antiwar demonstration.

Melanie Hulbert, vice provost for student success and dean of the Honors College at the University of Alaska at Anchorage works to create an equitable and supportive student experience for all types of learners. Melanie Hulbert first caught the bug for academia in her introductory sociology class. Hulbert found herself drawn to the subject matter. She became more and more engaged in the course, sitting in the front row and interacting with the professor outside of class. “I can honestly say it...

The small Franciscan college has experienced an enrollment collapse over the past decade. Now Cardinal Stritch plans to close in late May, following commencement. Declaring that Cardinal Stritch University is in a “no-win situation,” officials announced Monday night that the private, Catholic college in Wisconsin will close at the end of the spring semester.

Representatives from a dozen colleges met at Georgetown University last week to discuss three-year bachelor’s degree pilot programs. Their ambitions are grand, but the future is uncertain. Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Their proposed solution is an unconventional one—...

Underrepresented minority students and faculty reflect on their experiences and Cornells efforts to address the challenges they face in academia.

(RNS) — The university denies charges by Lauren Cazares, founder of Loma LGBTQIA+ Alumni & Allies Coalition, that the dean of the school of theology was terminated for 'anything related to the LGBTQIA+ community.'

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Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan, has released its annual language guide to be used in its comm