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Black, Hispanic Faculty Far Less Likely to Get ‘Gold Standard’ Tenure Recommendations

A study published this month focusing on five unnamed universities adds to research on racial disparities in the professoriate.

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Kansas Lecturer Leaves After Remark on Shooting Men Who Won’t Vote for Women

The University of Kansas announced Friday that an instructor is no longer employed there after a video showed him “making...

Cornell International Grad Student Says He Won’t Be Deported

The British Cornell University grad student who said the institution was effectively deporting him over his pro-Palestine activism says he...
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What’s Behind the Push for ‘Institutional Neutrality’?

Since last Oct. 7, several institutions have pledged to refrain from speaking on political and social issues. But what does it mean for a university to go neutral?

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A Year of Investigations, Punishments and Arrests of Scholars

Dozens of faculty members and grad student workers have faced discipline from colleges, universities and police since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Some have now returned to work. Others lost their jobs.

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The U.S. Started Investigating a Professor’s Pro-Palestine Speech. Then She Was Fired.

The Office for Civil Rights said it didn’t ask for the firing as part of a probe into how Muhlenberg College handled complaints related to a professor who allegedly made “pro-Hamas statements."

Professor Who Was Secretly Taped, Then Fired, Sues Chapel Hill

The now-former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor whose classes the business school secretly recorded, and whose contract...
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Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary.