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August poll question: In selecting the next president, how important to you is the candidate's policies on Israel?: A. Decisive B. Somewhat important C. Not very important D. Unsure Tell [...]

Anissa Lee learned facts and figures about the Holocaust while preparing to conduct her interview. Nervous, the 16-year-old Wellesley resident faced Elizabeth Dopazo, a Jehovah's Witness survivor of the Third [...]

Curt notes sent by higher-ups wreck weekends and family time; "Until you've gotten that 10 p.m. "pls fix", you just don't get it". [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on the evaluation of courses by administrators at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill through classroom visits. The author looks at academic improprieties of college professor Julius E. Nyang'oro, the introduction of a computerized grading system, and teaching standards at UNC.

The article discusses the criticism of the University of Florida for barring professors from serving as a witness in a voting-rights case. According to the university officials, the professors doing outside paid work was against the university's rules. But according to a professor at the university, they were denied an unpaid leave as they had to serve as an expert witness in the lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters and other nonprofit organizations.

The article examines the reason the University of Florida requested their professors not to participate in lawsuits supporting mask mandates against Florida, following Governor Ron DeSantis' executive order that forbade mask mandates in schools as the Delta variant of Covid-19 tore through the state. Topics discussed include significance of the testimony of pediatrician and professor Jeffrey L. Goldhagen, and reaction of the professors to the denials.

The article reports that highly regulated semester is underway for unvaccinated college students and employees. Topics include considered that before the Covid-19 vaccines were widely available, many campuses mandated masks, required regular or random testing, and barred large gatherings and colleges are developing parallel sets of policies, depending on vaccination status as employees and students who are not fully vaccinated will experience stricter rules.

The article reports on how the COVID-19 pandemic compelled higher education workers in the U.S. to reconsider their career while colleges and universities want to return to normalcy. Topics include the issues faced by workers like low salaries, high workloads, and rare opportunities for promotion, as well as their search for better work-life balance and better jobs outside the academe.

The article reports on the evaluation of legal recourse against the University of North Carolina and its board by lawyers representing journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones over the denial of her tenure in June 2021. Topics discussed include the role of antidemocratic suppression that prohibits the free exchange of ideas in her legal recourse, significance of the prize-winning journalistic work of Hannah-Jones on race in society, and criticism received by the hiring of the journalist as a professor.

The article examines the flexible work-from-home policies being considered by universities and colleges in the U.S. in 2021. Topics discussed include the preference of majority of Duke University faculty and staff for flexible work arrangement due to lack of commute and higher productivity at home, possible influence of such policies to the hiring and retention efforts of colleges, and importance of evaluating employee expectations together with institutional identity and student preferences.

The article considers the teacher shortage facing the University of Vermont after announcing the elimination of programs in the College of Arts and Sciences in December 2020. Topics discussed include the role of structural budget deficit in the decision and increase in the number of students in 2021, implication of the refusal of the institution to use its reserves to address the deficits, and opposition of faculty members and staff to COVID-19 pandemic decisions to cut nontenured professors.

The article focuses on the implication of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of David B. Wilson, member of the Houston Community College Board of Trustees in Texas from 2014 to 2019, who was censured in 2018. Topics discussed include the vote of the board to bar Wilson from holding board leadership positions and reimbursing board travel, claims of Wilson that he was censured for expressing his opinion on public issues, and effect of the ruling on the board operation as a singular unit.

The article features several individuals and their everyday life experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic to examine how the pandemic transformed the lives of students and their families after a year as of March 2021. Among the featured persons are students Jeff Ayisire and Deanna Schwartz, and Valparaiso University president José D. Padilla. Also cited are the number of job losses in higher education institutions in the U.S.

The article discusses the responses by University System of Georgia campus leaders to the question of state Republican Representative Emory Dunahoo on how the school teaches 'privilege' and 'oppression.' Among the answers by the leaders is that they discuss said topics in an objective and non-biased manner. Also cited is the response of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's David C. Bridges to Dunahoo.

The article focuses on the emergence of new campus-speech issues in Republican-led statehouses across the U.S. which indicates new areas for politicians to shape campus affairs. The states that are seeing a direct intrusion into the classroom include Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. The division among political parties on how they see higher education is also cited, as well as bills in Arkansas and Florida which indicate possible areas of legislative focus.

Campuses have been busy fretting over coronavirus-stricken budgets. Predominantly white universities may be in for an even greater reckoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presidents of several prominent institutions told Vice President Mike Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of their desire for clearer federal guidance and protection from liability should they hold in-person instruction in the fall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic may narrow striving campuses' ambitious future plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the letters, the department appeared to urge a thorough accounting of all programs, activities, and people funded with money from foreign entities — no matter how small. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before it placed its president on leave, Texas Southern's board gave itself the ability to dismiss any employee. "I've never seen anything like this," one expert says. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One professor's policy has provided a window into why students cheat. Others are adopting it, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A book-burning last year at Georgia Southern University made international headlines. But there's more to the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doug Bauder, who just retired from Indiana University at Bloomington, talks about a changed climate in the campus's home state. "Stop thinking Mike Pence, and start thinking Pete Buttigieg." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]