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FACULTY

‘Everybody Is a Target Right Now’: A University’s Sacking of a Tenured Critic Sends Shock Waves

By Tom Bartlett and Jack Stripling

How a war of words between a Linfield University professor and the president culminated in a firing — and elicited nationwide outrage.

TITLE IX

Tensions Over Campus Sexual Assault Roil U. of Arkansas

By Sarah Brown

The university’s decision to pay a $20,000 settlement to a former student who’d been punished for sexual assault has prompted campus outrage.

HIGHER ED UNDER FIRE

Idaho Lawmakers Think Critical Race Theory Can ‘Exacerbate and Inflame Divisions.’ So They Passed a Law Against It.

By Nell Gluckman

The legislation comes at a time when colleges have been under pressure from Idaho conservatives.

BACKGROUNDER

‘Anti-American,’ Pushing ‘Marxism,’ and More: Do You Recognize Your College Here?

By Emma Pettit

A free-market group escalates its war against academe.

GOVERNANCE

After Controversial Faculty Firings, Collin College Trustees Will Face Voters

By Michael Vasquez

Three board members at the Texas community college have challengers this weekend. Their fate could be determined by perceptions of the college’s controversial president, H. Neil Matkin.

BACKGROUNDER

‘That Man Makes Me Crazy’

By Michael Vasquez

How one college president shattered norms, played down the pandemic, and sent his faculty critics packing.

NOW MORE THAN 180 CAMPUSES

Here’s a List of Colleges That Will Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19

By Andy Thomason

More colleges are announcing that they will require students to be vaccinated. Here are the ones we know about.

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Pivoting Through the Pandemic

Learn how Rice University is developing new capabilities on how to deliver education and collaborating with students and faculty to better serve their community — physically and virtually.

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Today's Global Campus

Strategies for Reviving International Enrollments and Study Abroad
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