Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

” On classroom speech specifically, the university says that “academic freedom is not a defense to violation of law, and faculty or others in charge of classroom topics and discussion must themselves remain neutral on the topic and cannot conduct or engage in discussions in violation of these prohibitions without risking prosecution.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

” The students, who belong to a group called Young Americans for Freedom, argue in their lawsuit that Lori Bennett, the college president, cited this policy in November when she ordered their anticommunism fliers be taken down from bulletin boards after administrators received complaints.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

And with issues of freedom of expression drawing global attention throughout the tournament, should FIFA, the event’s organizers, have learned from higher education’s longer experience of operating in Qatar? Global Editorial Tags: International higher education Times Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

The news about Law, coupled with ongoing concerns about academic freedom and political interference at UF, has therefore troubled some on campus. “There’s constant threats to intellectual freedom and tenure and a whole raft of issues.” It is deeply concerning and has a chilling effect on academic freedom.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

UNC Chapel Hill recognizes that the academic freedom of its faculty is essential to the university’s mission. Do they wish to pass up the opportunity to have new colleagues and a new academic unit? This could not be further from the truth. It is time to cheer the example that UNC Chapel Hill has set.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

One of the faculty members who says he was blacklisted from serving on the Faculty Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT) is currently suing the university. Such a rigged process raises serious questions about U of A’s commitment to truly shared governance and academic freedom.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 12, 2022

Image: Growing numbers of international academics are reporting being denied entry to India, sparking speculation that New Delhi is seeking to keep critical scholars out of the country. Despite inquiries by numerous academic organizations and British and Italian officials, he still has not got any explanation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

academic workforce has shifted from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty to mostly contingent faculty, including full-time non-tenure-track, full-time with no tenure system and part-time faculty,” the report says. Adjuncts Editorial Tags: Adjuncts Faculty Graduate students Image Source: AAUP Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It helps to support academic freedom, which involves free speech, the ability to challenge and speak out and do research and present that research without fear of retribution.” ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Carpenter, a highly acclaimed academic at the University at Albany and a highly respected expert on the dangers posed by Monsanto around the country and the world,” Kowal said. ” “This clearly is an adverse impact on my academic freedom,” Carpenter said, “and is just totally unacceptable.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s the beginning of the semester, and here on campus, faculty have begun distributing syllabi to students imagining the challenges they will be facing in the coming academic year. “Safe enough” also means balancing protection and freedom with respect to living and learning with others.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The end of tenure doesn’t have to mean the end of academic rights to freedom of speech or protection against arbitrary firing. I spent the 2021–22 academic year working at Northumbria University in England, a country where legal tenure does not exist but where faculty in higher education are heavily unionized.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

Academic freedom advocates have criticized Miller and have noted that López Prater warned her students about what she was going to do. Ad keywords: executive faculty Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: López Prater subsequently did not get rehired for the spring semester. Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

“Generally speaking, however, the university has repeatedly expressed its support for the First Amendment rights and academic freedom of our faculty,” she said. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

” Michael DeCesare, senior program officer in the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance at AAUP, said his association holds that academic freedom includes “speech or action that’s critical of institutional policy and those in authority.” Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” Going Public.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Heavier than the crown is the price tag: The newly revamped conservative college , home to fewer than 1,000 students, is seeking $400 million, according to a business plan released last week. The current academic system, outlined in the report, has “become corrupted with political agendas that undermine that (sic.)

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Greg Yudin, a professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, said the course was just the most recent development in a broader crackdown on academic freedom. ” Other academics were less bleak, taking heart from the ideological failures of the past. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. “This will result in both academic and administrative staff changes. While enrollments did fall during the pandemic, they said, they increased again this academic year.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past three decades, average tuition and fees has risen dramatically; in the 2021–22 academic year, average published tuition and fees at public four-year institutions was more than 2.5 It’s not unlike requiring food stamp recipients to only buy food at high-end organic markets. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The unions’ core demands include a $54,000 annual salary minimum for all graduate workers, a $70,000 annual salary minimum for postdocs, a 14 percent salary increase for academic researchers and annual cost-of-living adjustments. At present, minimum graduate worker pay is less than $24,000 and minimum postdoc pay is about $56,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

” Programs like the University of Arizona’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions have successfully fostered rigorous scholarship and enlightened conversation for years. Here’s where to start. Margaret Spellings, former U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” “I see this at the very least as a threat to my academic freedom. ” Editorial Tags: Faculty Image Source: Palm Beach Atlantic U Image Caption: Samuel Joeckel Is this diversity newsletter?: So the first time was also the time when I was told that my contract may not be renewed. PBA is a Christian university.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Academic Freedom Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Academic freedom Faculty Politics (national) Image Source: Fox News Image Caption: David Boliek, chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, in a Jan. She said the Board of Trustees has “leverage.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Other ATs, such as Freedom , support impulse control by blocking websites; I use this to block social media while working. However, as an academic with ADHD, I am constantly living on “hard mode,” and this technology helps level the playing field in ways I couldn’t anticipate. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials. Given that need, what should we ask job candidates applying for academic positions? Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Diversity Hiring Image Source: mattjeacock/e+/Getty Images Multiple Authors: Justin P.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. This one will be listed under the “ changing-enrollment ” and “ future-of-academic-work ” tags. Several articles caught my eye this week. But very few institutions feel safe right now.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2016, Kruger said, NASPA weighed whether to follow through with plans for a meeting in Indianapolis given the 2015 passage of the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. For sites governed by laws deemed contrary to the group’s values, “if you’re going to go, you have to exercise your voice,” he added.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

These nuanced conversations take place every day, and are the kinds of respectful, thoughtful discussions I hope will occur at APHA and other academic settings.” “There is no one ‘right’ answer, as there are tradeoffs of every intervention, as well as the cost of NOT pursuing any given course of action.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

million students were enrolled in the 2019–20 academic year, but that number dropped to around 1.8 Community Colleges Editorial Tags: Community College Presidents Image Source: Coolcaesar at the English Wikipedia Image Caption: The California Community College system is poised to pick a new chancellor.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The stated goal of the conference was identifying ways “to restore academic freedom, open inquiry and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish.” There can be no academic freedom without enforcement.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

But he also reiterated that “at no point did the website represent university policy” and affirmed that Stanford’s “efforts to advance inclusion must remain consistent with our commitment to academic freedom and free expression.” I believe the same is true here.” Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

We kept MYFest virtual because we agree with Higdon and Butler that virtual conferences can promote better access for those without funds or freedom to travel, and because virtual conferences are certainly better for climate justice. Have a diverse community of organizers. To capture a diverse audience, design with diverse organizers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Student interest will continue to grow when it comes to virtual courses and remote learning options for live courses, the desire for creating richer academic and on-campus experiences, and new technology options. We keep trying to force what people in a certain generation believe class should be like rather than focusing on freedom.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Colm O’Muircheartaigh, a University of Chicago professor and academic director of the university’s Center for Survey Methodology, said, “SSRS is an entirely reputable research company.” The email also specified that the survey focused on issues of free expression and academic freedom.

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