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Arizona Republican lawmakers aim to establish a "grade challenge department," enabling students to contest low grades, alleging political bias from professors. Read to learn more.

The instructor was fired after a doula spoke in her class about clients having abortions. Antiabortion activists celebrated, while academic freedom advocates were horrified. Melissa Goldberg, a psychology lecturer at Catholic University of America, invited a doula and community health worker to speak to her Lifespan Development class. A week later, the university announced that Goldberg had been fired.

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...

Unofficial results show Cathie Alexander and incumbent Jay Saad winning seats on Collin College board in runoff colored by partisanship.

Several faculty leaders from Indiana University campuses wrote a letter opposing proposed state abortion legislation and defending a colleague. An IU official called it a “policy violation,” a new report reveals.

Low enrollment, restructuring, and performance evaluations are among the many reasons they can be terminated.

Mark McPhail, who attacked Indiana University Northwest for not adhering to due process, will become the academic leader of Linfield University.

National group representing university professors calls Purdue presidential hiring process “disturbing”

Mark McPhail was fired by Indiana University Northwest over a “threat of physical violence.” Faculty members say administrators acted too harshly.

Presidential turnover and faculty retrenchment have led to a failure in shared governance.