Higher ed organizations have raised alarm over a federal government document that asks universities to agree to significant restrictions without specifying what they’ll gain—or what they’ll lose for refusing.
Advocates condemned the proposal, which asked nine universities to overhaul admissions, hiring and speech policies and to suppress criticism of conservatives in exchange for more federal money.
By Josh Moody
2 October
Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry.
Latest Scholars at Risk data records 395 attacks in 49 countries, with risk to universities spreading from authoritarian regimes to liberal democracies
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause.
By Katherine Knott
1 October
Verbal-only policies prohibiting academic discussions of trans identity appear to be extending beyond the Texas Tech system and now include anti-trans curricular reviews.
Pointing to the slain activist’s inflammatory statements about minority groups, some are pushing back—at their own peril—against the right’s framing of him as an emblem of quality discourse.
