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Inside Higher Ed
MAY 2, 2024
A ‘Universities on Fire’–Inspired Reading List joshua.m.kim@d… Thu, 05/02/2024 - 03:00 AM A list of books and reviews on climate change and higher education. Byline(s) Joshua Kim
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Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 1, 2023
Higher education and the value of bringing climate change fiction and nonfiction into conversation. Blue Skies: A Novel by T. Boyle Published in May 2023
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Inside Higher Ed
JULY 26, 2023
What has to happen for academic leaders to prioritize climate risk? The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters by Juliette Kayyem Published in March 2022
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FIRE
DECEMBER 13, 2023
HR927 threatens freedom of expression on college campuses by admonishing the presidents for rightly standing up to calls for blanket censorship of students.
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 16, 2024
Reading ‘On the Move’ and Thinking Mostly About Climate Change joshua.m.kim@d… Thu, 05/16/2024 - 03:00 AM Another excellent book to place in conversation with Universities on Fire. Byline(s) Joshua Kim
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 28, 2023
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow was fired Wednesday for appearing with his wife in pornographic content on at least two websites, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Seventy-four members of Congress on Friday signed a letter urging the governing boards of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to fire their presidents as fallout continued from the campus leaders' disastrous testimony during a hearing on antisemitism Tues
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 28, 2023
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow was fired Wednesday for appearing with his wife in pornographic content on at least two websites, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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University Business
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) distinguished the colleges who most egregiously botched a faculty or student organization’s right to tenants that align with free speech in 2022. This list differs from FIRE’s 2023 free speech rankings , which rated over 200 colleges.
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University Business
JANUARY 9, 2024
The Ann Arbor Fire Department was called to numerous fires throughout the city after the University of Michigan football team won the national championship on Monday, Jan. There was a fire raging in front of Good Time Charley’s after the game ended. University. Read more from mLive.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Burgess will become interim president of Saint Augustine’s University, effective immediately. Burgess His appointment comes after the recent firing of former SAU President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail , who said she believed that her termination was retaliation for her Oct. in elementary education from Claflin University; an M.S.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and College Pulse have released their annual ranking on campus free speech , and one of the most prestigious universities in the nation received the lowest score possible: a fat zero. Specifically, FIRE recorded four times administrators sanctioned scholars between 2019 and 2023.
University Business
AUGUST 25, 2023
Under the new rules approved Wednesday, staff and faculty at Florida colleges can be fired if they use a restroom for a gender that does not correspond with their gender assigned at birth. Colleges will be forced to fire employees after a second offense, according to the new rule’s text. Read more from CNN.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Saint Augustine’s University fired President Christine McPhail this week and also suffered a setback on its shaky accreditation status, according to statements issued by the SAU Board of Trustees. Christine McPhail’s dismissal follows recent friction with the board.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Joe Gow was fired after adult videos of him and his wife were discovered. Dr. Joe Gow The decision from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents was unanimous. Gow has argued that the creation of the books and videos falls under free speech and did not use any university property, funds, or time.
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University Business
APRIL 4, 2024
The university fired about 60 people and some of the offices where they worked are expected to close by May 31, according to a joint letter from the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors and the Texas chapter of the NAACP. Read more from The Texas Tribune.
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Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Pat Fitzgerald, the Northwestern University football coach who was suspended and later fired following allegations of hazing on the football team, is suing the university for wrongful termination, the
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 1, 2023
Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). We’re finally seeing the extent to which faculty have lost their peace of mind,” said FIRE Research Fellow Dr. Nathan Honeycutt.
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Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 16, 2024
Later, I jumped off a tenure track at the University at Buffalo to go to law school, meaning I did not embark on a scholarship path to put me into the line of fire that has recently emerged around this topic. Seize the opportunity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has announced its list of America’s 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech, targeting institutions large and small that the civil liberties non-profit says have violated First Amendment principles. UO ignored FIRE’s protestations and maintained the rubric.
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Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
PEN America, a free speech advocacy organization, is calling on Catholic University of America to reverse its decision to fire a lecturer after a guest speaker discussed abortion in her class.
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The Guardian - Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.
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University Business
MAY 6, 2024
Read more from FIRE. The post University provosts have bleak outlook on free expression in higher ed appeared first on University Business. Last month, Inside Higher Ed released findings from its census of 331 chief academic officers, or provosts, working at public and private institutions across the country.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2024
PEN America, a free speech advocacy organization, is calling on Catholic University of America to reverse its decision to fire a lecturer after a guest speaker discussed abortion in her class. Goldberg was fired by the university within a week of the speaker’s visit.
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Insight Into Diversity
APRIL 18, 2023
In 2020, the Almeda Fire ravaged rural communities of Jackson County, Oregon, destroying more than 2,500 homes. A continuous thread in each [story] was looking at how different organizations within the community can partner … and come together to support each other and support those affected by fire. It was really moving to see.”
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Former Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail has filed a complaint alleging that the school engaged in retaliation against her and discrimination against her and other Black women. Woman, did you hear me speak?! I demand you answer my question!” according to the firm.
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Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sixteen days after a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was killed on campus, police once again issued a lockdown Wednesday due to an “armed & dangerous person on/near campus.” No shots were fired.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The university does not — and will not — tolerate hazing in any form,” Boston College said in a statement Wednesday. Back in July, Northwestern University suspended-then-fired head football coach Pat Fitzgerald due to hazing issues amongst players. This marks yet another instance of hazing issues on college campuses.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 25, 2023
Two Houghton University employees were fired after not following the school's email signature guidelines on pronouns, USA Today reported. The Christian university cited the two’s “continued use of pronouns, and [their] email signature and violation of institutional policy after [they] had been asked to remove them.”
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University Business
JANUARY 16, 2024
State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Due to shifting market needs, President Gordon Gee announced last August that West Virginia University would cut or restructure 32 programs and lay off 169 faculty. What is a land-grant university’s core principle?
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University Business
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Two R1 universities have secured a president appointment following severe fallouts with their previous leaders. Welsh stepped in to lead the R1 university four months ago after an interim dean’s botched hire infuriated community members and caught heavy press.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and conservative radio host Dennis Prager were met with protest, and the talk fed political fires about campus free speech. But he and Prager didn’t hold back on stage while discussing free speech at ASU and ridiculing the university’s professors. ” Read more from AZ Central.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Fordham University this week announced a ban on the use or storage of all battery-powered e-scooters, e-bikes and e-skateboards on university property. Fordham University this week announced a ban on the use or storage of all battery-powered e-scooters, e-bikes and e-skateboards on university property.
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FIRE
OCTOBER 27, 2022
FIRE wrote New York University this week with grave concerns about the school’s headline – making dismissal of accomplished organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr. “??We FIRE’s letter came shortly after Jones’s own op-ed about his situation appeared in the Boston Globe. Experts say: Hard.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 16, 2022
Image: The director of the University of Florida’s honors program, who has been in the role eight years, says he was fired for no apparent reason with two years left on his current, five-year contract. “The Board of Trustees of UF fired me effective August 15. I learned about this only about a month ago.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Michigan State University has told Mel Tucker it intends to fire him as head football coach for cause as soon as Sept. The university initially suspended Tucker, 51, without pay Sept. The university initially suspended Tucker, 51, without pay Sept. Read more from The Detroit News.
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FIRE
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
“I may be fired for writing this.”. That’s how professor Max McCoy opened his September op-ed in the Kansas Reflector titled, “Emporia State University is about to suspend tenure. Two days later, ESU did fire McCoy — under the very policy he criticized. And FIRE is concerned he won’t be the only one punished for speaking out.
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Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Michigan State University on Monday said it planned to fire Mel Tucker, the football coach whose alleged harassment of a rape survivor and activist is under investigatio
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University Business
JUNE 6, 2023
An adjunct assistant professor of art at New York’s Hunter College, which is part of the City University of New York, reacted angrily to two pro-life students tabling on campus by berating them and vandalizing their display. Read more from FIRE.
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University Business
MARCH 20, 2024
On Monday night, shots were fired again near campus for the third time in the span of a month. The post Georgia State University students continue to express safety concerns near campus appeared first on University Business. “And you just, you cannot predict human behavior.” ” Read more from 11 Alive. .
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Insight Into Diversity
MARCH 19, 2024
Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently declined an injunction request by Spectrum WT, an LGBTQ+ student group at West Texas A&M University (WT), seeking permission to host a drag show on campus despite a ban from university administrators. Yet one persists at a public university.” Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans. “If
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Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 30, 2023
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. She and another rabbi at Stanford wrote an email to the university’s Jewish students addressing the concerns raised by the photo.
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University Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
(CNN) – The proposal is a top priority for DeSantis’ higher education agenda this year, which also includes giving politically appointed presidents and university boards of trustees more power over hiring and firing at universities and urging schools to focus their missions on Florida’s future workforce needs.
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Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 23, 2024
As Saint Augustine's University navigates through financial challenges, employees shared their concerns with WRAL News as they continue waiting for multiple paychecks. The university employee asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from the school's governing board. Saint Augustine's University missed paychecks on Feb.
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