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Association Leader: Censorship in Academia Will Not Defeat Antisemitism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

5 House hearing "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism" characterized long-standing campus commitments to free and open inquiry as inherently antithetical to the safety of students, particularly Jewish students in higher ed. Mulvey noted that the Dec. These obligations are not in conflict.

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International Women’s Day: ¼ of the Top 200 Higher Ed Leaders Worldwide are Women

Insight Into Diversity

President of WPG, Andrea Silbert, said to Forbes, “This speaks to an increased awareness of the importance of having academic leadership that represents the diversity of the student population it serves… it’s high time we’re starting to see more gender and racial diversity reflected in the highest roles in academia.”

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Claudine Gay Resigns as Harvard President

Insight Into Diversity

Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid allegations of plagiarism and controversy surrounding her recent congressional testimony on campus policies related to student conduct and antisemitism. Garber, the provost and chief academic officer, was appointed interim president until a permanent successor is named.

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Free speech principles aren't just for students (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Chicago has not only defined a bold set of principles for free inquiry but has enlisted support from more than 80 universities across the United States in enforcing these principles. It is quite easy to wag fingers at undergraduate students for wanting to block conservative viewpoints from campus.

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How CIOs can take advantage of the AI revolution

University Business

We are also seeing educators and students adopt AI faster than previous disruptive and transformative technologies. As academia continues to grapple with the speedy advancement of AI, CIOs must be willing to step up and educate their campuses on practical use cases of this groundbreaking technology.

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How universities have entered the dialogue on the Hamas-Israel conflict

University Business

When students took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize UCLA on behalf of professors who advocated for their participation at a pro-Palestine teach-in on the recent Hamas-Israel conflict , the university quickly responded to cut down anyone’s belief that it intentionally endorses such an event. How does this impact higher ed?

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Indian & US universities seek closer ties in AI and tech

The PIE News

It comes as the Institute of International Education is sent its own delegation of 17 US colleges and universities to the country in a bid to “support broader bi-national efforts to increase U.S.-India of its GDP on R&D, AAU’s involvement could provide a major boost to research in Indian academia.