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Mayo Threatens Firing Professor for Interviews—and Idioms
A longtime faculty member at the medical school is being threatened with termination after interviews he gave to CNN and The New York Times.
New Initiative Seeks to Provide Clearer Data on MSIs
Scholars launched a new database focused on minority-serving institutions to create more clarity among researchers, policy makers and others about how to classify and study them.
Opinion
For Military and Higher Ed, a Shared Dilemma
With their challenges well aligned, higher ed and the military should work together to reduce the opportunity costs of volunteering for military service, Mike Haynie writes.
Professor Says He Was Barred From Campus After FOIA Inquiry
A public health professor says the University at Albany barred him from campus after a Monsanto lawyer filed an information request.
He Complained About Takeout. Harvard Took Him Out
A faculty review board said it began investigating a now-former Harvard professor for, among other things, his publicly condemned reaction to being overcharged for Chinese food. That’s per his new lawsuit—over not earning tenure.
‘We Do Not Want Cop City’
Some students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta are protesting a police training center scheduled for construction. They and some of their professors want campus leaders to denounce the project.
ABA Votes to Keep Standardized Tests
The association rejected the idea of allowing law schools to be test optional.
‘This Is Bigger Than Her’
The first Latina crowned Miss Coppin State University is facing backlash on social media for taking on the role at a historically Black university. The incident raises larger questions about who belongs at and can represent HBCUs as their student populations diversify.