Mark Stegeman News Today

A consultant has already started calling potential candidates for the University of Arizona presidency, prompting members of the search advisory committee to question the “rush.”

The legislation, nearing passage, would bolster the power of presidents and regents while reducing faculty members to merely “consulting” on governing, academic and personnel decisions. Arizona lawmakers are close to passing a Republican bill that would downgrade faculty members’ role in shared governance of public universities while bolstering the clout of presidents and state regents. Currently under Arizona law, the faculty “shall participate in” or “share responsibility for” go...

A bill aiming to limit shared governance, like the University of Arizonas Faculty Senate, is making headway in the statehouse.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, few parts of our political or cultural life would be left unharmed. Is the court ready for that?