Lawyers representing the university in a lawsuit argued in January that such freedom, if it exists, belongs to the institution and not to individual professors. The president affirmed the principle, but the dispute continues.
Ben Trachtenberg, a law professor and former faculty leader, says the University of Missouri’s infighting administrators missed opportunities to defuse protests before they got out of control.
With the release on Tuesday of the House Democrats’ proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, we can compare their priorities, head to head, with the Republicans’ competing legislation.
Education is a central pillar of the White House’s national work-force strategy, unveiled last week. So why weren’t academic leaders asked to provide any input?
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In our present age, says Ben Yagoda, both irony and typographical indicators of it abound, including the tilde (Ë), the rolling-eyes emoticon, the winking smiley face, and the âvictory handâ dingbat/emoji character (â) to simulate air quotes. Can you add more?
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