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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Stanford University officials’ response to a shared image of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography has drawn a sharp critique from a national free speech advocacy organization. ” That’s not quite how the free speech organization the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, sees it.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

“These findings lead to a very concrete policy recommendation: increase access to active learning spaces,” says the study, led by Michael C. candidate in educational psychology at the University of Kansas and a lead researcher at Multistudio, a Kansas City, Mo.–based The solution? Invest in active learning spaces.

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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

The dean of students determined in February that Dervish had violated the student code of conduct and sanctioned him with expulsion for stalking, failure to comply with the directives of university officials and discriminatory conduct. It declined to share details of its own investigation, citing privacy restrictions.

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‘I Didn’t Think Any College Would Accept Me, but I Was Wrong’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, Scott Jaschik wrote a piece here at Inside Higher Ed about direct admissions. What kinds of technology solutions are necessary to seamlessly connect secondary and postsecondary education databases? What are the privacy issues? If you missed it, here’s the link.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

University leaders responded with an email to the campus denouncing the incident and announcing that the Office of the Dean of Students would investigate and determine whether the incident constituted a violation of the university code of conduct. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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Scandals in the Ivory Tower

Inside Higher Ed

Are scandals, in other words, an inevitable, if deplorable, product of a system of higher education as large and decentralized as this nation’s? Formulate and enforce policies in areas where discrimination and abuse are common. These issues are far too important to be left to the general counsel’s office.

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Florida's public universities are under assault (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

1 state for higher education: “ Florida schools are some of the best in the nation.” They will be, however, if the governor’s long-term agenda to dismantle higher education is allowed to succeed. The governor now intends to bar funding for these programs across the higher education system.