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Advocates for campus free expression and academic freedom say they’ve seen increased reports of squelched speech since Oct. 7—often following social media campaigns and political pressure. Maria Renata Gangemi, an associate professor of communication arts, allegedly shared on Facebook last month a political cartoon of an arm with red and white stripes, connected to a gloved hand with the white and blue colors and Star of David from Israel’s flag. The hand wielded a bloodied butcher’s kni...

The investigations found that Spartanburg Community College disbanded its Faculty Senate and surveilled faculty members, then lied about it to media outlets and South Carolina’s inspector general. Administrators at Spartanburg Community College are under public scrutiny after they disbanded the college’s decade-old Faculty Senate in the spring, replaced it with a new governing body and took a number of ethically questionable steps, prompting investigations by state law enforcement authoritie...

A conservative activist alleges Claudine Gay plagiarized parts of her thesis. She denies the charges but faces growing pressures on her presidency. The fate of Harvard University president Claudine Gay remained uncertain Monday as the Harvard Corporation met for the second time in as many days to try to contain the disastrous fallout of her testimony at last week’s congressional hearing on antisemitism in higher education.

The conservative group that advocates against diversity policies is calling on Harvard University to remove its president over her comments on antisemitism.

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“Postvention” protocols are valuable tools for colleges dealing with a suicide. But not every university is as prepared as it should be when a tragedy occurs. What happens when a death by suicide occurs at a small, rural college campus that lacks the mental health infrastructure to support all the students gripped by grief, guilt or fear? In the past, those students might have been forced to navigate the aftermath all alone or draw on the surrounding community—which might be constrained by...

The University of Wisconsin on Saturday voted in favor of rejecting a deal that would have scaled back DEI initiatives in exchange for pay raises and more funding.

Clashes over DEI funding between the UW system and Republican legislators led to an impasse that lasted six months. Leaders have reached a deal to move on, but at what cost? A nearly six-month standoff between the Universities of Wisconsin and the Republican-led state legislature over diversity, equity and inclusion spending seems poised to end. 

The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is inviting the New York schools students to North Adams, and finding ways to ease the transition.

Students studying Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies received nearly all A's.