Colleges may have to balance the right to free speech with their need for federal money; campuses use TikTok to recruit students; and more.
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By Katherine Mangan

Colleges may have to balance the right to free speech with their need for federal money. (PREMIUM)

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Marketing
By Lauren Fisher

Campus social-media teams are increasingly using the platform as a recruitment tool. But creating new content in a fast-changing, meme-heavy digital ecosystem isn’t easy. (PREMIUM)

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Faculty
By Megan Zahneis

Barrett Watten, an English professor and poet at Wayne State University, was found to have “engaged in a hostile environment/sexual harassment,” among other things. Watten says the findings are “false or inaccurate as represented.” (PREMIUM)

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By Maximilian Alvarez

Graduate workers at Harvard are striking. Here’s what they want, and how they plan to get it. (PREMIUM)

Research
By Vimal Patel

The university said it would not seek the money, and would create such a policy only as part of the collective-bargaining process. (PREMIUM)

International
By Karin Fischer

The department’s principal deputy counsel says the Senate may want to open an inquiry; and other news in gobal higher ed.

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The field has bought into the notion that “useful” and “moneymaking” are synonymous. They’re not. (PREMIUM)

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